Spain, as it is
Author: G. A. Hoskins
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 226
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Author: G. A. Hoskins
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 226
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Published: 1851
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adam Hochschild
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-03-29
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 0547974531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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 fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa’s photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war: a fiery nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman who went to wartime Spain on her honeymoon, a Swarthmore College senior who was the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid, a pair of fiercely partisan, rivalrous New York Times reporters who covered the war from opposites sides, and a swashbuckling Texas oilman with Nazi sympathies who sold Franco almost all his oil — at reduced prices, and on credit. It was in many ways the opening battle of World War II, and we still have much to learn from it. Spain in Our Hearts is Adam Hochschild at his very best. “With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written in English. A humane and moving book."—New Republic “Excellent and involving . . . What makes [Hochschild’s] book so intimate and moving is its human scale.” — Dwight Garner, New York Times
Author: William D. Phillips, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0521607213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaging history of the rich cultural, social and political life of Spain from prehistoric times to the present.
Author: Harold C. Raley
Publisher: Halcyon Press Ltd.
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0970605498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spirit of Spain brims with apercus and revelations, many of them controversial, others startling, all engrossing. From Roman Hispania to the most recent Spanish trends, Professor Raley narrates the unique story of Spanish civilization. Examples of his original thinking include a phenomenology of Spanish history, a new theory of the Spanish Renaissance, new concepts of Spanish patriotism and nationalism, and a reinterpretation of Spanish Stoicism. As the book unfolds he also takes many sidelong looks into Hispanic America and offers a new explanation of Spain's relationship to Moslem Al-Andalus and modern Europe. The book culminates in a radical analysis of Quixotic life and its unsuspected significance for the post-modern age.
Author: Bill O'Neill
Publisher: Lak Publishing
Published: 2020-05-18
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781648450488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fun and interesting book about Spain. It comes packed with fun and juicy trivia, fun facts and interesting stories about the great country of Spain.
Author: John Huxtable Elliott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780300048636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt used to be said that the sun never set on the empire of the King of Spain. It was therefore appropriate that Emperor Charles V should have commissioned from Battista Agnese in 1543 a world map as a birthday present for his sixteen-year-old son, the future Philip II. This was the world as Charles V and his successors of the House of Austria knew it, a world crossed by the golden path of the treasure fleets that linked Spain to the riches of the Indies. It is this world, with Spain at its center, that forms the subject of this book. J.H. Elliott, the pre-eminent historian of early modern Spain and its world, originally published these essays in a variety of books and journals. They have here been grouped into four sections, each with an introduction outlining the circumstances in which they were written and offering additional reflections. The first section, on the American world, explores the links between Spain and its American possessions. The second section, "The European World," extends beyond the Castilian center of the Iberian peninsula and its Catalan periphery to embrace sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe as a whole. In "The World of the Court," the author looks at the character of the court of the Spanish Habsburgs and the perennially uneasy relationship between the world of political power and the world of arts and letters. The final section is devoted to the great historical question of the decline of Spain, a question that continues to resonate in the Anglo-American world of today.
Author: Christian Leitz (Ph. D.)
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781571819567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 15 essays from a 1996 international conference (no location noted) historians look at the impact of European nations on Spain and of Spanish events on Europe between the rise of the fascist dictatorship and the Stabilization Plan. They consider such matters as the role of foreign powers in the Spanish Civil War, Spain's relations to the Axis powers and Vichy France during the Second World War, the fate of Spanish Republicans in exile, Spain's international position in the aftermath of World War II, and Franco's reorientation of foreign policy in response to evolving European economic cooperation and integration. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Pablo Emilio Pérez-Mallaína Bueno
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-03-31
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780801881831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book should appeal to all aficionados of the romance of the sea as well as to specialists in Spanish and Latin American colonial history.--Benjamin Keen, author of A History of Latin America
Author: Edward F. Stanton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-05-30
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0313077290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern Spain is a revelation in this up-to-date overview. Stanton vibrantly describes the startling variety of landscape, people, and culture that make up Spain today. Included are a context chapter and others on religion, customs, media, cinema, literature, performing arts, and visual arts. Students of Spanish and a general audience will be rewarded with engrossing insights into what writer Ernest Hemingway called the very best country of all. Spain is a modern European nation, yet Spaniards are fiercely tied to their individual towns and regions—with their distinct social customs, dialects or languages, foods, landscape, and lifestyles—more than to a united country. Culture and Customs of Spain conveys the extremes, such as the hard-working Catalan contrasted to the leisurely paced Castilian, coexisting in first and third world conditions, and the love/hate relationship with the Catholic Church. Spain's institutions are described, and its contributions to the world—from unparalleled literature and cuisine to flamenco and filmmaker Pedro Almodovar—are celebrated. A chronology and glossary complement the text.