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Passing for Spain: CERVANTES AND THE FICTIONS OF IDENTITY

Passing for Spain: CERVANTES AND THE FICTIONS OF IDENTITY

Barbara Fuchs

Passing for Spain charts the intersections of identity, nation, and literary representation in early modern Spain.
100 Places in Spain Every Woman Should Go

100 Places in Spain Every Woman Should Go

Patricia Harris

She tells the tales of some formidable Spanish women, from a fourth-century B.C. goddess to a queen who wrested Spain from the Moors, to the twenty-first-century winemakers who elevated Spain's Toro and Rueda onto the world stage.
Pagan Spain

Pagan Spain

Richard Wright

As Pagan Spain portrays midcentury Spain as a country of tragic beauty, political oppression, and contradictions, Wright amalgamates at once polemic, travel narrative, history, and journalistic essay.
Europe in perspective, 1815 to the present

Europe in perspective, 1815 to the present

James Edward Gillespie

... in Spain (1938); E. H. Peers, The Spanish Tragedy, (1937); Pierre Crabit.es, Unhappy Spain (1937) — defense of the Nationalist cause; George Young, The New Spain (1933); D. A. de Santillan, After the Revolution (1937); H. R. G. Greaves, ...
Research Collaboration between Europe and Latin America: ...

Research Collaboration between Europe and Latin America: ...

Rigas Arvanitis

Scientometrics, 53(3): 325-335. Levine, A.G. (2010). Advancing science in Spain: Not simply a Quixotic quest. AAAS/Science Business Office Feature. Focus on Spain. http://www.alainalevine.com/uploads/levine-Science-Spain-6-11-10.pdf ...
Discover Spain

Discover Spain

Stuart Butler

Describes points of interest and itineraries for each region of Spain, and recommends hotels, restaurants, and entertainment.
Spain: Be Fluent in Spanish Life and Culture

Spain: Be Fluent in Spanish Life and Culture

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Spain is a complex country. Beyond the stereotypes of sangria and bullfighting lies a cultured mosaic of regions, languages and customs.
Comrades (Text Only)

Comrades (Text Only)

Paul Preston

A brilliant portrait of the Spanish Civil War from our greatest historian of Spain. ‘Anyone interested in Spain will want this book.‘ Alan Massie, Daily Telegraph
Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern Spain: Old ...

Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern Spain: Old ...

Trevor J. Dadson

Challenges the view that that the Moriscos of Spain made little or no attempt to assimilate to the majority Christian culture around them, and that this led to their expulsion between 1609 and 1614.
Spain: A History

Spain: A History

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'The book, which is nicely illustrated, contains nine essays... which cover the history of Spain, still unfamliar to most English-speakers, from prehistoric times to the present.
A Concise History of Spain

A Concise History of Spain

William D. Phillips, Jr

Engaging history of the rich cultural, social and political life of Spain from prehistoric times to the present.
Gendered Spaces

Gendered Spaces

Daphne Spain

'A work of vaulting ambition and synthesis. Daphne Spain is asked about the relations among gender, power, and space, our dwellings and domains.
Architecture of Spain

Architecture of Spain

Alejandro Lapunzina

This title provides an entertaining look at the many regional styles of architecture in Spain, including such notable structures as Bilbao's Guggenheim and La Alhambra in Granada.
The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World

The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World

Carlos Fuentes

An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture
The Cultural Dynamics of Democratization in Spain

The Cultural Dynamics of Democratization in Spain

Peter McDonough

Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has made a successful transition to democracy. This book looks at what that transition has meant for the Spanish people.
Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's ...

Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's ...

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This volume considers the responses to the social and institutional norms of the Spanish colonial system along Spain's northern frontier provinces.
Sephardim: The Jews from Spain

Sephardim: The Jews from Spain

Paloma Díaz-Mas

Their relationship to Spain is also uncovered, as well as their everyday lives. Sephardim is an authoritative and completely accessible investigation of the history and legacy of this amazing people.
The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain: A Mediterranean ...

The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain: A Mediterranean ...

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For Trevor J. Dadson, the example of Villarrubia de los Ojos, one of the five Campo de Calatrava towns, was a model that can be extended to many Morisco areas of Spain.31 But it is based on a very low figure: some 600 mudéjares antiguos ...
Visigothic Spain 409 - 711

Visigothic Spain 409 - 711

Roger Collins

The book falls into two parts: the first providing a chronological overview of political and military events; the second reviewing the evidence for social life and organization in Visigothic Spain.
Spain: A Unique History

Spain: A Unique History

Stanley G. Payne

Framed by reflections on the author’s own formation as a Hispanist and his evaluation of the controversy about “historical memory” in contemporary Spain, this volume offers deeply informed insights into both the history and the ...
Early Medieval Spain

Early Medieval Spain

Roger Collins

This volume forms a companion to Angus MacKay's Spain in the Middle Ages: From Frontier to Empire, 1000-1500, from the same publishers, and contains maps, genealogical tables, alist of rulers, full references and bibliographies.
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish ...

Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish ...

Emiro Martínez-Osorio

24. Ibid., 39. For further analysis of the frontispiece to the first volume of the Elegías, see Jason McCloskey, “Spain Succored by Religion: Titian and Lope de Vega's La Dragontea,” in Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World, ed.
Old Spain and New Spain: The Travel Narratives of Camilo ...

Old Spain and New Spain: The Travel Narratives of Camilo ...

David Henn

This is the first, book-length study of the six travel narratives published by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries and the ...

Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries and the ...

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In these essays (five of which are previously unpublished) Jonathan Israel argues that Spain's efforts to maintain her hegemony continued to be centred on the Low Countries.
Spain: An Oxford Archaeological Guide

Spain: An Oxford Archaeological Guide

Roger Collins

Spain's opulent mixture of cultures and religions have left it rich with notable sites for the traveler to explore, from the Arab Walls of Madrid to the Roman hippodrome in Toledo, from the palace complex of Saville to the Islamic fortress ...
Gendering Spanish democracy

Gendering Spanish democracy

Mónica Threlfall

Gender Politics and Society in Spain breaks new ground in applying a systematic gender perspective to the analysis of established democracies, and is the first book in English to reveal the unique features of contemporary Spain's evolving ...
Travels Through Spain in the Years 1775 and 1776: In which ...

Travels Through Spain in the Years 1775 and 1776: In which ...

Henry Swinburne

In which Several Monuments of Roman and Moorish Architecture are Illustrated by Accurate Drawings Taken on the Spot Henry Swinburne. A CH Ro No Lo G 1c a L T A B L E of the K1 N G s of SPAIN. Invaded by the Carthaginians 239 before  ...
Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy ...

Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy ...

Paul Preston

A powerful biography of Spain’s great king, Juan Carlos, by the pre-eminent writer on 20th-century Spanish history.
Samuel Beckett's Endgame

Samuel Beckett's Endgame

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... plays in Spain are from my paper 'Beckett in Spain: Theater and Politics,' originally written in English and published in Italian in a special number of Drammaturgia devoted to Beckett and edited by Anna Maria Cascetta and S. E. Gontarski.
Spain: A Primary Source Cultural Guide

Spain: A Primary Source Cultural Guide

Graham Faiella

An overview of the history and culture of Spain and its people, including the geography, myths, arts, daily life, education, industry, and government, with illustrations from primary source documents.

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