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Catalunya, One Nation, Two States
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 32.00A comparative ethnographic study of Catalan culture in France and Spain. more...
Constitutional Documents of Portugal and Spain 1808?1845 / Textos constitucionais de Portugal e Espanha 1808?1845 / Textos constitucionales de Portugal y España 1808?1845 / Verfassungsdokumente Portugals und Spaniens 1808?1845
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 307.00This volume includes31 constitutions, constitutional drafts and amendments illustrating the checkered political history of Spain in the first half of the 19th century. It begins with the "Estatuto de Bayona" (Bayonne Statute) imposed by the French in 1808 and continues with the"Constitucion politica de la Monarquia Española" (Political Constitution... more...
The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 19361939
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 79.00A military history of the Spanish Civil War focussing on the challenges faced by the Republican Army. more...
A New International History of the Spanish Civil War
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 40.00Michael Alpert's study of the Spanish Civil War is dedicated to the international aspects of the conflict, and covers the whole era, setting the action in Spain against major events throughout the world of the 1930s. Since the first edition of this book new archival material has become available and this fully revised edition includes the latest research... more...
The Betrothed of Death
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 108.00Following her defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain shifted her colonial focus to her Protectorate in northern Morocco. When Spanish conscripts began to fight and to die by the thousands, political fallout forced the government to create a new unit of professional soldiers. This unit would serve the dual function of providing fighting men... 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...
Renascent Empire?
Amsterdam University Press 2001; US$ 55.50A detailed study about Portuguese colonial policy in Asia more...
Daily Life During the Spanish Inquisition
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 81.00The life of persecuted minorities, as well as that of the wealthy and the ordinary people of Spain during the Spanish Inquisition, comes alive in this illuminating account. For three and a half centuries, the Inquisition permeated every aspect of daily life in early modern Spain. This history depicts in graphic terms the dangers faced by Jews and Muslims... more...
Cooking Up the Nation
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 95.00This book looks at the role played by gastronomes and cookery book writers in the construction of a national cuisine in Spain at the turn of the last century, when the nation was also being written into existence in fiction and constituted in law. more...
The Francoist Military Trials
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 103.00In Spain between 1936-1945, the Franco regime carried out one Europe?s more brutal but less remembered programs of mass repression. Many were murdered by the regime?s death squads, and in some areas Francoists also subjected up to 15% of the population to summary military trials. Here many suffered the death sentence or jail terms up to thirty years.... more...









