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21. Doves of War: Four Women of Spain by Paul Preston | |
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(2003-05-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description The portraits in this provocative, yet objective volume mirror the war itself, with the left pitted against the right.On the left side are Margarita Nelken, the revolutionary feminist, writer, and politician who is juggling anxieties for her son and daughter with her frantic efforts to strengthen the Republican war effort against Franco; and Nan Green, the communist nurse who left her children behind in England to fight against fascism alongside her husband in the International Brigades.On the right side are Mercedes Sanz Bachiller, who, devastated by a miscarriage on hearing of her husband's death in battle, entered politics and became the most powerful woman in the Francoist zone; and Priscilla Scott-Ellis, the wealthy English socialite who traveled to Spain in the naïve hope of marrying the Spanish prince she so unrequitedly loved, and stayed to help the fascist war effort as a nurse on the front lines. Drawing on documentary material, letters, diaries, and memoirs, Preston follows the four from birth to death to show how, as women, wives, and mothers, they were affected by the political struggles of the 1930s, and how their lives were traumatized and forever changed by the Spanish Civil War and its consequences.Despite their different nationalities, social origins, and beliefs, these remarkable women are linked by their courage, determination, intelligence, compassion, and readiness to make personal sacrifices for others. These dramatic, poignant, and vivid portraits offer a fresh perspective on the experiences of women in the Spanish Civil War and shed new light on the emotional cost of the conflict that is often viewed as the last war fought for ideals. |
22. Franco's Spain (Contemporary History Series) by Jean Grugel, Tim Rees | |
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(1997-09-26)
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23. A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain by Chris Lowney | |
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(2006-09-14)
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24. Early Modern Spain: A Social History (Social History of Modern Europe) by James Casey | |
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(1999-06-21)
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25. The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal: Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries by Dolores Sloan | |
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(2009-01-02)
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26. A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, Vol. 2 by Yitzhak Baer | |
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(1993-01-01)
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27. Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher | |
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(2006-05-05)
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28. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the CatholicVolume 1 by William Hickling Prescott | |
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29. Spain: An Illustrated History (Illustrated Histories) by Fred James Hill | |
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(2001-07)
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30. A LITERARY HISTORY OF SPAIN 8 Volumes by JONES R.O et al | |
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31. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 4: The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War 1609-48/59 | |
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(1970-12-01)
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32. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by Prof. John H. Elliott FBA | |
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(2007-04-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires’ processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas. Customer Reviews (12)
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33. History of the Moors of Spain by M. Florian | |
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(2010-07-12)
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34. A Social History of Modern Spain (A Social History of Europe) by Adrian Shubert | |
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(1990-11-20)
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35. A History of Islamic Spain by W. Montgomery Watt, Pierre Cachia | |
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(2007-05-30)
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36. The Romans in Spain (A History of Spain) by John S. Richardson | |
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(1998-12-11)
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37. Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 by L. P. Harvey | |
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(2006-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained, subsequent widespread rebellion provided the Christian government with an excuse—or justification, as its leaders saw things—to embark on the systematic elimination of the Islamic presence from Spain, as well as from the Iberian Peninsula as a whole, over the next hundred years. (20050613)Picking up at the end of his earlier classic study, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500— which described the courageous efforts of the followers of Islam to preserve their secular, as well as sacred, culture in late medieval Spain—L. P. Harvey chronicles here the struggles of the Moriscos. These forced converts to Christianity lived clandestinely in the sixteenth century as Muslims, communicating in aljamiado— Spanish written in Arabic characters. More broadly, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, tells the story of an early modern nation struggling to deal with diversity and multiculturalism while torn by the fanaticism of the Counter-Reformation on one side and the threat of Ottoman expansion on the other. Harvey recounts how a century of tolerance degenerated into a vicious cycle of repression and rebellion until the final expulsion in 1614 of all Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. Retold in all its complexity and poignancy, this tale of religious intolerance, political maneuvering, and ethnic cleansing resonates with many modern concerns. Eagerly awaited by Islamist and Hispanist scholars since Harvey's first volume appeared in 1990, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, will be compulsory reading for student and specialist alike. “The year’s most rewarding historical work is L. P. Harvey’s Muslims in Spain 1500 to 1614, a sobering account of the various ways in which a venerable Islamic culture fell victim to Christian bigotry. Harvey never urges the topicality of his subject on us, but this aspect inevitably sharpens an already compelling book.”—Jonathan Keats, Times Literary Supplement |
38. The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky | |
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(2001-02-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description "The singular remarkable fact about the Basques is that they stillexist," Kurlansky asserts. Without a defined country (other thanEuskadi, otherwise known as "Basqueland"), with no known relatedethnic groups, the Basques are an anomaly in Europe. What unites theBasques, above all, is their language--Euskera. According to ETA,"Euskera is the quintessence of Euskadi. So long as Euskera is alive,Euskadi will live." To help provide a complete picture of the Basques,Kurlansky looks at their political, economic, social, and evenculinary history, from the valiant Basque underground in World War IIto medieval whalers to modern makers of the gâteauBasque. The most affecting chapter focuses on Guernica, a smallmarket town bombed by German planes for over three hours on April 26,1937, and uses interviews with survivors to illustrate the horror ofthe attack. Kurlansky is clearly enamored of the Basques, which leads him to seethem in a uniformly positive light. That rosy outlook aside, TheBasque History of the World is an excellent introduction to theseromantic people. Are they the original Europeans? Kurlanskydoesn't weigh in on the issue, preferring instead to honor the Basquerequest Garean gareana legez--let us be what weare. --Sunny Delaney Customer Reviews (82)
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39. The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain: 1031 - 1157 (A History of Spain) by Bernard F. Reilly | |
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(1996-01-17)
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40. The Knights Templar in the Golden Age of Spain: Their Hidden History on the Iberian Peninsula by Juan García Atienza | |
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(2006-04-18)
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