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Legitimizing the Queen
Bucknell University Press 2010; US$ 59.99Isabel I's reign in Castile responds to the ostensible needs expressed throughout the fifteenth-century for moral and political regeneration. Isabel is seen in many works as a just and wise monarch, as a redeemer of her people, and as a divine sovereign. This book reviews changes in the gendered construction of Isabelline sovereignty from the theoretical... more...
Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg
PM Press 2011; US$ 12.00In Farquhar McHarg?s autobiography, a young boy from Glasgow finds himself in the middle of Barcelona?s revolutionary underworld at the tail end of World War I. Volume One chronicles McHarg?s liaisons between the British Secret Service Bureau and the Spanish anarchists. McHarg tells of a corrupt Spanish regime bent on crushing a rebellious working... more...
Lisbon
PublicAffairs 2011; US$ 15.99Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe?s exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U.S., and a host of spies, secret police, captains of industry, bankers,... more...
A Drizzle of Honey
St. Martin's Press 2000; US$ 7.99When Iberian Jews were converted to Catholicism under duress during the Inquisition, many struggled to retain their Jewish identity in private while projecting Christian conformity in the public sphere. To root out these heretics, the courts of the Inquisition published checklists of koshering practices and "grilled" the servants, neighbors, and... more...
The Real Band of Brothers: First-hand accounts from the last British survivors of the Spanish Civil War
HarperCollins Publishers 2009; Not AvailablePersonal stories from the men and women who volunteered to fight for a cause they passionately believed in. more...
The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars (2)
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95Osprey are confident in boasting that this remarkable three-part study will transform the research material available to the English-speaking student of the Peninsular War (1808-1814). Most know that Wellington's Portuguese troops were praised as the 'fighting cocks' of his army; fewer appreciate that they represented between half and one-third of... more...
Parallel Histories
LSU Press 2013; US$ 25.95The distinct religious culture of early modern Spain?characterized by religious unity at a time when fierce civil wars between Catholics and Protestants fractured northern Europe?is further understood through examining the expulsion of the Jews and suspected Muslims. While these two groups had previously lived peaceably, if sometimes uneasily, with... more...
Spanish Seaborne Empire
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 40.00The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early nineteenth century in civil wars between rival generals... more...
The Making of the Basque Nation
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 51.00Set against the historical background of Spain's unification as a modern state, this book is a study of Basque nationalism. more...









