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  • The Portuguese immigrant in Curaçao

    immigration, participation and integration in 20th century

    by Charles do Rego ...
    The rapid industrialization of Curacao, based on oil refining, resulted in an urgent need for labor which the small community could not provide sufficiently. The Portuguese, mostly from Madeira, were among the immigrant laborers who came by the thousands from the 1920s until the 1950s. A small group managed to stay either at the refinery or in the agricultural and grocery sector while others came ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    How Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and forged the First Global Empire

    by Roger Crowley ...
    'A rare gift . . . The story he has to tell may be a thrilling one but not every historian could tell it so thrillingly.' Financial Times'Magnificently rip-roaring history . . . Bursting with colour and excitement.' Dominic SandbrookAs remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Barcelona The Great Enchantress

    by Robert Hughes ...
    Series series Directions
    Beginning with a vivid description of his wedding in the splendid medieval ceremonial chamber in Barcelona's city hall, Hughes launches into a lively account of the history, art, and architecture of the storied city. He tells of architectural treasures abounding in 14th-century Barcelona, establishing it as one of Europe's great Gothic cities, while Madrid was hardly more than a cluster of huts. ... Read more

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  • From Tolerance to Tyranny

    A Cautionary Tale from Fifteenth-Century Spain

    by Erna Paris ...
    One thousand years ago, a civilization existed in Spain that was famed throughout Europe. To the horror of the Christian rulers to the north, Jews, Christians, and Moors lived together in harmony — and in doing so they created one of the most extraordinary societies the West has ever known.In the span a few hundred years, however, Spain would transform itself from a pluralistic, multicultural ... Read more

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  • Homage to al-Andalus

    The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

    by Michael B. Barry ...
    The Iberian Peninsula was conquered by Islamic forces in 711 AD and the Islamic presence continued in this part of Europe for 900 years. This presence left an indelible stamp in Spain and Portugal, like the wonders of the Alhambra and the Great Mosque of Córdoba. Its legacy also extends to the rich seam of learning, in science, medicine, literature and philosophy that was later transmitted to the ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historical Dictionary of Portugal

    by Douglas L. Wheeler, Walter C. Opello Jr. ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Europe
    Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the ... Read more

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  • The Impostor

    A True Story

    by Javier Cercas ...
    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the acclaimed author of Outlaws • For decades, Enric Marco was revered as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. But in May 2005, at the height of his renown, he was exposed as a fraud.Marco was never in a Nazi concentration camp. And perhaps the rest of his past was fabricated, too, a combination of his delusions of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain

    Translated by Paul Sharkey ...
    by Frank Mintz, Chris Ealham ...
    This is the first English translation of Frank Mintz's seminal study of the economic experiments put into place during the Spanish Revolution to both sustain civil society during the war and, more importantly, act as the material basis for a new society. These plans weren't developed by professional economists but grew out of a political movement that put working people at the fore and believed ... Read more

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  • Visible Empire

    Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

    by Daniela Bleichmar ...
    Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American ... Read more

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  • With the Heart of a King

    Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown

    by Benton Rain Patterson ...
    Philip II of Spain, the most powerful monarch in sixteenth-century Europe and a ferocious empire-builder, was matched against the dauntless queen of England, Elizabeth I, determined to defend her country and thwart Philip's ambitions. Philip had been king of England while married to Elizabeth's half-sister, Bloody Mary Tudor, a devout Catholic. After Mary's untimely death, he courted Elizabeth, ... Read more

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  • Pluralism in the Middle Ages

    Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia

    by Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Medieval Studies
    The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenomenon. People in the Middle Ages lived in pluralistic societies, and they found highly interesting ways of dealing with religious and cultural diversity. While religious and political authorities commanded people to stick to their kind, some people explored the borderland between ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of the Catalans

    by Helena Buffery, Elisenda Marcer ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    In this reference, Buffery and Marcer cover all of the areas historically inhabited by the Catalan people. These are, in order of size and population: Catalonia, which accounts for over half of the population of the Catalan-speaking areas; Valencia, with over a third; the Balearic Islands with just under 8 percent; and the Catalunya Nord, the Principality of Andorra, and the Catalan-speaking areas ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD