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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...
Catalunya, One Nation, Two States
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 32.00A comparative ethnographic study of Catalan culture in France and Spain. more...
Revisiting al-Andalus
BRILL 2007; US$ 132.00Brings together a range of approaches to the material culture of Islamic Iberia, highlighting directions in Anglo-American scholarship in this field since the influential exhibition in 1992, Al-Andalus: the Art of Islamic Spain. This volume explores topics such as relationship between Andalusi literature and art and domestic architecture. 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...
Authoring the Past
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 36.00Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and politics during the period. Jaume Aurell examines texts from the late twelfth to the late fourteenth... more...
Historical Dictionary of the Catalans
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 84.99Historical Dictionary of the Catalans deals not only with the people who live in Catalonia, but with the language and culture of the Catalan countries. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture,... more...
The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century
Cambridge University Press 1979; US$ 32.00Explores two major themes in Spanish historiography - the consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos and the way in which the Habsburg Monarchy kept or lost control over its peripheral provinces. more...
Family and Community in Early Modern Spain
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 40.00An innovative study of power and the role of the family in Granada during the early modern period. more...
Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia
Eland Publishing 2012; US$ 14.57Penelope Chetwode?s middle-aged companion on her ride over the mule tracks and goat paths of Andalusia in 1961 was a twelve-year-old mare, La Marquesa. This treasured animal, borrowed from the Duke of Wellington?s Spanish stables, brought her experience of native travel conditions to the expedition, which was otherwise inspired by the author?s reading... 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...









