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Voices of the Old Sea
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 15.99After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes his three successive summers in that almost medieval community where life revolved around the seasonal sardine catches, Alcade's bar, and satisfying feuds with neighboring villages. It's... more...
Gibraltar Identity and Empire
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 170.00The principal argument in Gibraltar and Empire is that Gibraltarians constitute a separate and distinctive people, notwithstanding the political stance taken by the government of Spain. Various factors - environmental, ethnic, economic, political, religious, linguistic, educational and informal - are adduced to explain the emergence of a sense... more...
George Sand & Frederick Chopin
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 210.00George Sand recounts the story of her 1838 winter in Majorca, a winter she passed in the company of Frederick Chopin. She describes the natural beauties of Majorca as well as the rumblings of approaching war. more...
El impulso nacionalista
Edhasa 2012; US$ 5.92El nacionalismo es, junto con la aguda crisis económica, el gran reto al que se enfrenta la Europa de nuestro tiempo. La ?cuestión catalana? se ha situado en el centro del debate político y ha recibido una extraordinaria atención mediática, tanto dentro como allende nuestras milenarias fronteras, reavivando de este modo una polémica que no ha perdido... more...
Spanish Lessons
Crown Publishing Group 2000; US$ 19.00As Lambert and his wife set about restoring their moldering casita on Spain?s Mediterranean Costa Blanca and learning to live the life of Spanish villagers, he introduces us to a nation far removed from the matadors, tapas bars, and sangria swillers. He uncovers the ?real? Spain?a nation of passionate, eccentric, often contradictory, but always... more...
Gibraltar
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 170.00The year 2004 marks three hundred years since Britain took possession of Gibraltar, a rocky promontory at the foot of the Iberian Peninsula sometimes referred to as 'The Rock'. Gibraltar: British or Spanish? provides a detailed study of the attempts that have been made by Spain, especially since 1984 when Britain and Spain signed an agreement to... more...
Catalan Nationalism
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95Are the Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism within the EU? How does globalization impact upon the survival and development of nations without states such as Catalonia? Will increasing numbers of immigrants transform regional identities? Has devolution fostered secessionism... more...
Nationalism, Violence and Democracy
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 155.00Ludger Mees offers the first comprehensive study of one of Europe's most protracted ethnic conflicts. He carefully analyzes both the historical roots of the conflict and its later growing violent dimension. Special attention is paid to the framing of a new opportunity structure during the 1990s, which facilitated the first serious, but ultimately... more...
Territory and Terror
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95All Basque interpretations of national power have resulted in an uneasy mix of often fragmented and conflicting territorial identifications. Basques can identify themselves with France, Spain or an imagined Basque nation state. Territory and Terror confronts the imagined and actual territorial dimensions of nationalism, shedding new light on... more...









