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  • The Spanish Empire

    A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

    Edited by Professor H. Micheal Tarver, Emily Slape ...
    Series series Empires of the World
    Through reference entries and primary documents, this book surveys a wide range of topics related to the history of the Spanish Empire, including past events and individuals as well as the Iberian kingdom's imperial legacy.The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia provides students as well as anyone interested in Spain, Latin America, or empires in general the necessary materials to explore ... Read more

    $224.19 CAD

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  • The Spanish Civil War

    Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (Text Only)

    by Paul Preston ...
    A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco.No modern conflict has inflamed the passions of both civilians and intellectuals as much as the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39. Burned into our collective historical consciousness, it not only prefigured the imminent Second World War but also ushered in a new and horrific form of warfare that ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Rose For Winter

    by Laurie Lee Mbe Mbe ...
    Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness-the paradoxes deep in the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Islamic Spain

    1250 to 1500

    by L.P. Harvey ...
    This account of Muslim life in late medieval Spain is "a beautifully written account of an enthralling subject" ( The Observer).From an acclaimed scholar in the field, this is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest. Together with L.P. Harvey's following ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anatomy of Glory

    Napoleon and His Guard

    by Henri Lachouque, Anne S. K. Brown ...
    Napoleons Imperial Guard was arguably the most famous military formation to tread the battlefields of Europe. La Garde Imperial was created on 18 May 1804, and from its origins as a small personal escort, the Guard grew in size and importance throughout the Napoleonic era. Eventually, it became the tactical reserve of the Grande Arme, comprising almost a third of Napoleons field forces. The men of ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Man's War in Spain

    Trickery, Treachery and Thievery

    by Joaquín Pérez Navarro ...
    The collected memoirs and documents in this book, penned or preserved by the author with such belief and ideological conviction over so very many years of effort, can be described as a masterwork. Without euphemism or any other sort of circumlocution, they bluntly set out facts that will come as a revelation to anyone who knows only the accounts sympathetic to those who had a hand in the loss of ... Read more

    $4.89 CAD

  • The History Of The Reign Of Ferdinand And Isabella The Catholic :Volume 3

    by William Hickling Prescott ...
    The history of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic Volume 3 examines the transformative period of Spain under the rule of Ferdinand and Isabella, focusing on the consolidation of power, the strengthening of the monarchy, and the complex interplay between religion and governance. The work explores the institutional and societal changes that reshaped the kingdom, including the ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Music and Exile in Francoist Spain

    by Eva Rodriguez ...
    The Spanish Republican exile of 1939 impacted music as much as it did literature and academia, with well-known figures such as Adolfo Salazar and Roberto Gerhard forced to leave Spain. Exile is typically regarded as a discontinuity - an irreparable dissociation between the home country and the host country. Spanish exiled composers, however, were never totally cut off from the musical life of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • 10 Curiosities about Portugal

    by João Mendes ...
    Portugal, a small European country with multiple charms, attracts more and more tourists.What is so special about this nation?This eBook reveals 10 curiosities (historical, social, tourist) that help answer this question. ... Read more

    $5.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultivating Nature

    The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape

    by Sarah R. Hamilton, Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental HistoryThe Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long been prized by residents and visitors alike. Since the twentieth century, the disparate visions of city dwellers, farmers, fishermen, scientists, politicians, and tourists have made ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • A Quaker Goes to Spain

    The Diplomatic Mission of Anthony Morris, 1813–1816

    by H. L. Dufour Woolfley ...
    Series series Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
    In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack the United States, and with the further hope of acquiring that territory for America. The man Madison sent to pursue those challenging tasks was ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • Interrogating Francoism

    History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain

    Edited by Professor Helen Graham ...
    Helen Graham here brings together leading historians of international renown to examine 20th-century Spain in light of Franco's dictatorship and its legacy.Interrogating Francoism uses a three-part structure to look at the old regime, the civil war and the forging of Francoism; the nature of Franco's dictatorship; and the 'history wars' that have since taken place over his legacy. Social, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD