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  • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Homage To Catalonia

    by George Orwell ...
    A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century. “One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.” — The New YorkerIn 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant—as a member of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne (1812-1813)

    Considered by the majority of commentators to be the quintessential personal narrative of Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia. The book charts the progress of the Grande Armée toward it’s apogee at the occupation of Moscow, followed by the great fire of Moscow and the looting of the city to the terrible retreat. During the retreat the full horror of the hunger, privation are vividly ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homage To Catalonia / Down And Out In Paris And London

    by George Orwell ...
    Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell’s experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European cities. This edition brings together two powerful works ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • Dogs of God

    Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

    From the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward international conquest changed the world forever.James Reston, Jr., brings to life the epic story of Spain’s effort to consolidate its own burgeoning power by throwing off the yoke of the Vatican. By waging war on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Spain In Our Hearts

    Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed.For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Mercenary Mediterranean

    Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

    by Hussein Fancy ...
    Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles, for agreeing to enter the Crown’s service.They were not the first or only Muslim soldiers to do so. Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • El Salvador (1550-1973)

    Series Book 5 - Historia de los países latinoamericanos
    El Salvador es el país más pequeño de la tierra continental americana con 8.259 millas cuadradas; el más densamente pobla­do, (se estima que alcanzará los 4 millones en 1975); el único país al norte del Ecuador que carece de costas en el Atlántico; y, por último, es también excepcional en el hecho de que todos los in­dios han sido casi por completo asimilados y no existen minorías raciales ni ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle for Spain

    The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

    by Antony Beevor ...
    A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of ArnhemTo mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Filosofía antigua poética

    Series Book 209 - Historia
    La Filosofía antigua poética es la obra más famosa de López Pinciano, un tratado pedagógico de Poética dividido en epístolas. Sigue a Aristóteles en su Poética y Retórica y a Horacio. Las cartas contienen diálogos sobre la felicidad, la poesía, la doctrina sobre la tragedia, la comedia etc. Se cree que este libro fue escrito con el propósito de poner un freno clasicista a los éxitos dramáticos de ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Straits

    Beyond the Myth of Magellan

    An uncompromising study of the fictions, the failures, and the real man behind the myth of Magellan.With Straits, celebrated historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto subjects the surviving sources to the most meticulous scrutiny ever, providing a timely and engrossing biography of the real Ferdinand Magellan. The truth that Fernández-Armesto uncovers about Magellan’s life, his character, and the events ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Spanish Civil War

    Revised Edition

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    “Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”—Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book ReviewA masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’sThe Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest

    by David Roberts ...
    Famed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Domínguez-Escalante expedition.In July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to blaze a pathway to the new Spanish missions in California, across the huge expanse of what would become the American Southwest. In October, in western Utah, ravaged by hunger ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • World Without End

    Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Empire andbuilding on five centuries of scholarship, World Without End is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from “one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times” (The New York Times Book Review).The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. But the dramatic human story of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hell and Good Company

    The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made

    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, “The most extraordinary book about the Spanish Civil War ever encountered” (The Washington Post).The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias

    Series Book 92 - Historia
    Los tratados de Bartolomé de las Casas son alegatos en favor de los indios; el más conocido de éstos, Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias, no fue publicado hasta 1552. Junto a pasajes como el anterior, con apasionadas descripciones del Nuevo Mundo, Bartolomé de las Casas reflexiona sobre la Conquista y sus secuelas. Desde entonces el «genocidio» fue la idea de referencia a la hora ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • On Earth or in Poems

    The Many Lives of al-Andalus

    “With extraordinary linguistic range, Calderwood brings us the voices of Arabs and Muslims who have turned to the distant past of Spain to imagine their future.”—Hussein Fancy, Yale UniversityHow the memory of Muslim Iberia shapes art and politics from New York and Cordoba to Cairo and the West Bank.During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to Spain and Portugal but rather to al ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Spanish Account: Tales of the Alhambra & Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (Unabridged)

    From the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Author of Life of George Washington, History of New York, Lives of Mahomet and His Successors...

    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Spanish Account: Tales of the Alhambra & Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches and stories about the Moors and Spaniards. Through these stories, sketches and essays it is described the author's journey through Spain in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catherine of Braganza

    Charles II's Restoration Queen

    Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, married Charles II in 1662 and became the merry monarch's Restoration queen. Yet life for her was not so merry - she put up with the king's many mistresses and continuous plots to remove her from the throne. She lived through times of war, plague and fire. Catherine's marriage saw many trials and tribulations including her inability to produce an heir. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Iberian Swordplay

    Domingo Luis Godinho's Art of Fencing (1599)

    In 1599, during the period when the Portuguese crown was united to the crowns of Castile and Aragon, a Portuguese master-at-arms called Domingo Luis Godinho wrote a manuscript in Spanish entitled Arte de Esgrima (The Art of Fencing). Although Godinho's live is largely a mystery and his text was never published, today his manuscript of utmost relevance in the study of Renaissance Iberian fencing, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

    Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

    The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting". At this charged moment, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Ornament of the World

    How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

    This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles Times).This enthralling history, widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Fall of the Ottomans

    The Great War in the Middle East

    by Eugene Rogan ...
    The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle EastBy 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD