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"Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 19.95In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status and ethnic identity. Mark documents the ways in which local architecture was transformed by long-distance trade and complex social and cultural interactions... more...
1494
St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 27.99"This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, and religious cruelties. It sounds like Shakespeare and it could have very well been the plot of one of his plays." - -Toronto Star In 1494, award-winning author Stephen R. Bown tells the untold story of the explosive feud between monarchs,... more...
The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
Springer 2008; US$ 189.99The 1755 earthquake and tsunami were influential not only in Portugal but in all European and North African countries where the devastating effects were felt. The entire world was deeply impressed and the discussion of its causes generated a large amount of scientific and metaphysical speculation. It inspired philosophers, poets and writers. The socio-economic... more...
The A to Z of Spanish Cinema
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 33.99The A to Z of Spanish Cinema provides a better understanding of the role Spanish cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on producers, directors, film companies, actors, and films. more...
Access to History: Britain 1945-2007
Hodder Education 2008; Not AvailableA new title in the Access to History series, written specifically to cover the key content of the new 2008 AS and A2 specifications for all exam boards. more...
An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2003; US$ 11.50Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain?s conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevísima Relación catalogues in horrific... more...
Acts of Giving
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 109.99Acts of Giving examines issues surrounding donation-the giving of property, particularly landed property-in northern Spain during the tenth century. Exploring the place of giving within a broad complex of social and economic concerns, Wendy Davies highlights the centrality of Spain to some of the core themes of medieval European history. - ;Acts of... more...
Afonso Costa: Portugal
Haus Publishing 2011; US$ 25.00Frustration and disappointment at the Versailles Treaty ruined Costa, and eventually paved the way for Salazar?s dictatorship. more...
The Agony of Spanish Liberalism
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 100.00It was during the period 1913-1923 that the seeds of political polarization and social violence culminating in the Spanish Civil War were sown. This volume explores the causes of the growing schism within Spanish society, focusing on the crisis of the Spanish liberal order, under challenge from newly mobilized forces on both the Right and Left. 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...









