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  • Negotiating Spain and Cataloniaby Solí; Fernando Leó s; n

    Intellect 2003; US$ 10.00

    This book is a narrative study of four main discourses of national identity in Spain, with a special focus on Catalonia as disseminated in the Spanish press in the period between 1993-1996. The narrative analysis of the discourses of national identity is contained within two sections. The first deals with Spanish press coverage of the 1994 USA Football World Cup. The second section studies the process of negotiation towards a political pact between Partido Popular and Convergència I Unió after the 1996 general election. This study is not confined to the identification and description of discursive elements intended to shape identities, but deals heavily with the symbolic struggle between different ideological agents. The narrative approach... more...

  • Portugal and Brazil in Transitionby Raymond S. Sayers

    University of Minnesota Press 1968; US$ 72.00

    Through a series of essays on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture, this book presents an enlightening picture of contemporary civilization in the two countries and a forecast of what the next twenty years or so may bring. The authors discuss subjects in such basic fields as literature, linguistics, history, the social sciences, geography, the fine arts, music, and natural science. Taken as a whole, the contents demonstrate the logic of organizing a volume not around a geographical concept but, rather, around a historical concept, in this case "the world the Portuguese created," as Gilberto Freyre described it. The essays are based on papers that were given at the Sixth International Colloquium of Luso-Brazilian Studies,... more...

  • Spainby Zoran Pavlovic; Reuel Hanks

    Infobase Publishing 2006; US$ 30.00

    Six new titles in this bestselling series are packed with information which provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture. Abundant full-color photos and maps guide the reader on a voyage of discovery. This series meets national social studies and geography curriculum standards. more...

  • Portugalby Charles F. Gritzner; Douglas A. Phillips

    Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 30.00

    Portugal has an industrialized economy, made up primarily of light industry, and is a member of the European Union. A full-color overview of a fascinating nation, this is a guide to students who want to learn more about this country's culture, geography, and economy. more...

  • Iberian Worldsby Gary McDonogh

    Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 31.95

    Iberian Worlds is an imaginative, short text that dramatically depicts important globalization themes and processes through the important flows and impacts Spain and Portugal have had with many important regions of the world for many centuries. Spain and Portugal have long histories at the cutting-edge of world relations, managing far-flung empires, and author Gary McDonogh stresses this historical perspective as well as foregrounding the vast present world fostered by the "Iberian project" - Latin America, Southern Europe, parts of Asia and Africa, in which Spain and Portugal possess enormous power. more...

  • CultureShock! Portugalby Volker Poelzl

    Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2008; US$ 11.17

    CultureShock! Portugal is every reader’s guide to living, working and adapting to life in this beautiful, charming country. Packed full of useful information, this book will answer all your questions and provide you with much, much more. Find out how to obtain a work visa, how to enrol your children in the schooling system, where to live, and what to bring from home. As well as providing the practical information essential for anyone moving to a foreign land, this book guides you through the picturesque countryside, from vineyards to almond groves. Visit old-fashioned villages where bar owners know their patrons and grocers know their customers. Discover how the work environment ticks and what is important to the Portuguese people. For... more...

  • Rereading the Black Legendby Margaret R. Greer; Walter D. Mignolo; Maureen Quilligan

    University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00

    The phrase “The Black Legend” was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas. Challenging this stereotype, Rereading the Black Legend contextualizes Spain’s uniquely tarnished reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the “Black Legend.” A distinguished group of contributors here examine early modern imperialisms including the Ottomans in Eastern Europe, the Portuguese in East India, and the cases of Mughal... more...

  • A Nation upon the Ocean Seaby Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert

    Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 25.00

    With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews , Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries as the Portuguese Nation. By the early seventeenth century, this nation without a state had created a remarkable trading network that spanned the Atlantic, reached into the Indian Ocean and Asia, and generated millions of pesos that were used to bankroll the Spanish empire. A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea traces the story of the Portuguese Nation from its emergence in the late fifteenth century... more...

  • Andaluciaby John Gill

    Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 25.00

    Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Garden of Earthly Delights. Part One: Iberia: From Prehistory to the Visigoths. 1. Gardens of Stone. 2. Tartessos. 3. La Dama de Baza (Deities of Death). 4. Gadir/Cadiz. 5. The Heavenly Cities of Baetica. 6. Vandalucia. Part Two: Al-Andalus: From Invasion to the Fall of Granada. 7. Tariq's Rock. 8. The Blackbird of Baghdad. 9. Taming a Wilderness. 10. The Library of Babel. 11. Two Gentlemen of Cordoba. Parr Three: Espana: From Reconquest to the Twenty-First Century. 12. 1492. 13. Taking the Garden Indoors. 14. Nights in the Gardens of Spain. 15. The Picasso Century. 16. Englishmen Abroad. 17. Federico Garcia Lorca's Last Night on Earth. 18. Death in the Afternoon. 19. The Shrimp from the... more...

  • In the Light of Medieval Spainby S. Doubleday; D. Coleman

    Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 90.00

    This volume brings together a team of leading scholars in Spanish studies to interrogate the contemporary significance of the medieval past, offering a counterbalance to intellectual withdrawal from urgent public debates. more...