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  • Escorial

    The Habsburgs and the Golden Age of Spain

    by John Adamson ...
    A portrait of the rhythms and rituals of the magnificent court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century 'Golden Age'.Of all the European courts between the Renaissance and the French Revolution, none exercised a greater influence than the court of the Spanish Habsburgs in the Castilian fastness of El Escorial, northwest of Madrid. Their rule in the Iberian ... Read more

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  • El Cid

    The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary

    by Nora Berend ...
    Exploring the creation of the El Cid legend over the centuries, this masterful and evocative biography peels away the layers of myth to reveal the real-life historical figure.El Cid was perhaps the most famous warrior involved in the indiscriminate fighting—irrespective of religion—on the Iberian Peninsula during the eleventh century.In the centuries after his death, he was transformed into a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Ildefonso Cerdà

    La ciudad del futuro

    Illustrated by Jordi Vila i Delclòs ...
    Series series Nuestros Ilustres
    Ildefonso Cerdá will go down in history as the founder of modern urban planning. A man ahead of his time, he was able to unite his two passions, engineering and politics, in a project that would bear his name: the Barcelona Eixample Plan or Cerdá Plan. Born at a time when the conditions of the working class in large cities were deplorable, he dedicated his life to creating a better environment for ... Read more

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  • Dead Ground

    the thrilling new novel in the Spoils of War Collection, set during the Spanish Civil War

    by Graham Hurley ...
    Series Book 9 - Spoils of War
    A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley.Anglo-Breton translator Annie Wrenne is working in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Annie becomes a nurse on the front line, but after falling in love with a patient, she ends up pregnant - and abandoned - by a man she ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Comintern in Spain before the Civil War

    Red Tide Rising

    The Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1939, has been written about widely and remains mired in antifascist, anti-communist, and historical memory controversies. A deep dive into the Soviet, British intelligence and other European archives, this new book brings the majority consensus among historians of the Second Republic into question and sheds new light on the scale of Soviet communist activity in ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Bilbao

    by Patxo Unzueta ...
    Un deslumbrante retrato de la ciudad de Bilbao.«La gran guía literaria de la ciudad vasca».Juan José Solozábal«Un boxeador aficionado llamado Antonio Gómez Vallés, a quien llamábamos el Púgil, y que trabajaba en la huevería de mi padre, nos llevaba cada día, en bicicleta, al colegio. Nos metía a los dos en un gran cesto de mimbre, de los que entonces se usaban para llevar hu... ... Read more

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  • Transatlantic Bondage

    Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico

    Edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel ...
    Series series SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
    This groundbreaking volume addresses the enslavement and experiences of Black Africans in Spain and the Spanish Caribbean, particularly La Española (or Hispaniola) and Puerto Rico, two of the earliest colonies. Spanning nearly four hundred years and rooted in extensive archival research, Transatlantic Bondage sheds light on a number of relatively underexamined topics in these locales, including ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Recordar es político (y jurídico)

    Una desmemoria democrática

    by Pablo de Lora ...
    Series series Alianza Ensayo
    El 28 de noviembre de 1936 fue fusilado el militar retirado Cecilio de Lora, una de las más de dos mil víctimas de las sacas de presuntos quintacolumnistas asesinados en Paracuellos del Jarama. El descubrimiento de unas cartas a su familia llevó a Pablo de Lora, nieto de Cecilio, a investigar lo ocurrido tanto en su entorno familiar como, más en general, en un episodio de la Guerra Civil que, pese ... Read more

    $13.50 USD

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  • How the Spanish Empire Was Built

    A 400 Year History

    The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth.Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Spies for the Sultan

    Ottoman Intelligence in the Great Rivalry with Spain

    Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact on great power rivalries in the early modern eraIn the sixteenth century, an intense rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Habsburg Empire and its allies spurred the creation of early modern intelligence. Translated into English for the first time, Emrah Safa Gürkan's ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Pequeña historia mítica de España

    Mitos, figuras y arquetipos

    Series series El libro de bolsillo - Humanidades
    El pensamiento mítico es un lenguaje que lo impregna todo, una de las grandes narrativas, común a todos los pueblos de la tierra, que nos forma y nos conforma desde el origen. En este ensayo introductorio, David Hernández de la Fuente recorre la galería de figuras, motivos e historias míticas relacionadas con España en el imaginario colectivo: desde Hércules al mito de las dos Españas, pasando por ... Read more

    $7.55 USD

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  • Second Punic War in Iberia 220–206 BC

    From Hannibal at the Tagus to the Battle of Ilipa

    by Mir Bahmanyar ...
    Series Book 400 - Campaign
    The first dedicated**, illustrated** study of the events of the Second Punic War in Iberia, which served as a launch pad for the Carthaginian invasion of Rome.Iberia was one of three crucial theatres of the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome. Hannibal of Carthage's siege of Saguntum in 219 BC triggered a conflict that led to immense human and material losses on both sides, pitting his ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • La segunda guerra civil de Franco

    Una silenciosa lucha por la conservación del poder

    Cuando el 1 de abril de 1939 callaron los cañones y los fusiles de la Guerra Civil, para Francisco Franco terminaba una primera lucha que lo había encumbrado como Caudillo de un movimiento militar y político, y como jefe de un nuevo Estado aún por construir. Comenzaba entonces una batalla a veces latente, en ocasiones explícita, por la forma y la dirección de ese Estado, por la posición de España ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

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  • Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain

    Defining a Democracy, 1960-Present

    This book explores the evolution of Spanish feminism in the context of European feminisms and institutions from the 1960s to recent times.Beginning with Sección Femenina, the official Francoist women's organization, Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain traces the interplay between Spanish women's policy and international policymaking. In some cases, as with the ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Spain

    Coloniality, Violence and Independence

    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    At times explosive, at times restrained, the question of independence has been a fundamental force shaping contemporary Spain. However, the discipline of Spanish (Peninsular) studies has been slow to consider the reality of internal anticolonial and self-determination movements in Spain as part of their purview. To redress this, the present study engages postcolonial theory to shed light on the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Provenance and Possession

    Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy

    by K. J. P. Lowe ...
    Series Book 8 - E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series
    A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods" from Portuguese trading voyages—fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this ... Read more

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  • The End of the Spanish Civil War

    Alicante 1939

    The Spanish Civil War ended in Alicante. After Catalonia fell to the Hitler and Mussolini backed military rebellion of Franco’s Nationalists at the outset of 1939, the legitimate Republican government of Dr Negrín was faced with a choice between apparently futile resistance or unconditional surrender to the triumphant Nationalists. Choosing the path of continued defiance until they could force ... Read more

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  • Entre a Tradição e a Modernidade: A Vida Quotidiana No Estado Novo

    Series Book 285 - Manuscrito História Divulgativa
    UM MERGULHO NA VIDA DAS PESSOAS COMUNS Entre 1933 e 1974, Portugal viveu sob um regime autoritário que influenciou profundamente a vida quotidiana da população. Na memória coletiva, perduram as lembranças da censura, da repressão política e do controlo ideológico. Mas como chegámos lá? E como era, de facto, o dia a dia de quem, na cidade ou no campo, viveu o Estado Novo? A mulher era ensinada a ... Read more

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  • Hoy no es ayer

    by Santos Juliá ...
    No fue el pasado siglo una época sosegada en la historia de España. El vaivén de la política a lo largo de ese período parecería indicar una especial dificultad para encontrar un sistema político y una forma de Estado acorde con los cambios de la sociedad. En los textos de Santos Juliá reunidos en este libro, se analiza la evolución de España a lo largo del siglo XX. El autor, con su estilo ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • ¡Reconquista! ¿Reconquista? Reconquista

    Reconquista. ¿Sí o no? ¿Podemos seguir hablando de Reconquista? ¿En qué medida y con qué cautelas podríamos usar un término que cada vez es más polémico? ¿Es su empleo completamente legítimo? Estas son algunas de las cuestiones a las que este volumen colectivo, editado por David Porrinas, intenta responder, por medio de visiones múltiples y contrastadas proporcionadas por los mayores expertos en ... Read more

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  • Exploring Iberian Counterpoints in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Pacific

    Through a number of significant case studies, this volume examines changing Iberian dynamics in the Pacific, bridging the gaps between English and Spanish speaking scholarship to highlight understudied actors and debates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.The book shifts the predominant emphasis on Anglo-American studies and the historical neglect of Iberian endeavors in this ocean by ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Luces de Bohemia

    Una de las obras cumbre de Valle-Inclán es, sin duda alguna, "Luces de Bohemia", una obra con la que se inauguró el esperpento, un subgénero literario que ofrecía una imagen deformada de la realidad y que, según su autor, era la única manera posible de acercarse a la realidad española."Luces de Bohemia" es un esperpento publicado en 1924. La obra tiene por tema la crítica que hace Valle-Inclán de ... Read more

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  • Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400

    This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’ – individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of medieval Europe and the modern period that followed.Based on primary source materials and the latest historical research, these literary accounts of otherwise unsourced or under-sourced individuals are written by leading scholars in the field ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • El perro del hortelano

    by Lope de Vega ...
    Lope de Vega fue uno de los autores más prolíficos y reconocidos del siglo XVII, el Siglo de Oro español. Consiguió revolucionar el sector del teatro gracias a la publicación de su "Arte nuevo de hacer comedias", un texto en el que reunía las nuevas reglas para escribir obras de teatro y que estaban más adaptas a los tiempos modernos. Una de las obras más conocidas de Lope fue "El perro del ... Read more

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