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Fear and Progress
Wiley 2009; US$ 109.95Utilizing hundreds of confidential documents from authorities in the Franco government, Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco's Spain, 1939-1975 recounts the experiences of Spanish citizens who lived during the 40-year Franco dictatorship. Rejects traditional explanations of the length of Franco's power and the dictator's legacy Utilizes... more...
A Memorandum for the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery Court of the City and Kingdom of Granada
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 17.50Conquered in 1492 and colonized by invading Castilians, the city and kingdom of Granada faced radical changes imposed by its occupiers throughout the first half of the sixteenth century—including the forced conversion of its native Muslim population. Written by Francisco Núñez Muley, one of many coerced Christian converts, this extraordinary... more...
Making Democracy in Spain
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 50.00The story of the unsung heroes whose struggles prepared the transition to democracy in Spain. more...
Al-Andalus, Sepharad and Medieval Iberia
BRILL 2010; US$ 117.00This volume show the many facets of contact in al-Andalus and Medieval Iberia, with issues still vital after more than a millennium as cultures face off and open or close frontiers to ideas, customs, ideologies and the arts. more...
Pilgrimage to the End of the World
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 17.00Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela, one of the most important modern-day pilgrimage destinations for Westerners. In this chronicle of his travels to this captivating place, Rudolph melds... more...
The Wreck of Catalonia
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 94.99This fascinating account examines the fate which overtook the principality of Catalonia in the fifteenth century, reducing it from dominance within the state of Aragon to a marginal role in the Iberian power created by the union of Aragon and Castile. It begins by studying the tensions destabilising Catalonia: unrest among a peasantry resentful of... more...
Nelson's Refuge
Naval Institute Press 2011; US$ 29.95Since its capture from Spain in 1704, Gibraltar has been one of Great Britain?s most legendary citadels. As the gatekeeper of the Mediterranean Sea, its commanding position has shaped the history of the region and surrounding nations, including modern Britain. The fortress, its garrison, and its leaders were witness to and participant in both the... more...
A Mediterranean Emporium
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 46.00The first account of the trade and commercial life of the medieval Spanish kingdom of Majorca. more...
Community and identity
Manchester University Press 2009; US$ 95.00This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and colony. Unlike virtually all other studies of Gibraltar,... more...
Mieres Reborn
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 39.95Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally. Not long ago Mieres, a village in the eastern foothills of the Pyrenees, seemed destined to die. As in countless thousands of rural communities around the world, young people in Mieres over the... more...









