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Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) is revered as Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century author. Writing in the realist tradition of Dickens, Zola and Balzac, he described life in Madrid with unequalled fidelity. In addition, he was unique among novelists of his time in his...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
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Os ensaios reunidos neste volume reflectem sobre a angústia da influência que a Alemanha nacional-socialista sente na sua relação específica com os países da Europa do Sul com quem, à época, tem afinidades ideológicas manifestas (Itália, Espanha, Portugal). E fazem-no,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-08
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Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish adventurers of the fifteenth century convinced themselves that an earthly paradise existed in the Caribbean. This is the story of the hundreds of conquistadors who set sail on...
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Penguin
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2013-11-28
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Im 14. Jahrhundert war die italienische Stadt Genua eine der größten Seemächte im Mittelmeerraum. Ihre Außenpolitik konzentrierte sich deshalb maßgeblich auf Handel und Kolonien. Eine besondere Rolle nahmen dabei die Beziehungen zur päpstlichen Kurie ein, die zu Beginn...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi philosophers tamed the secular, Gema Martin Munoz is dismayed by the works of the...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2013-04-01
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Reluctant Warriors challenges traditional political interpretations of the Spanish Civil War, and sets it in a new and immediately human light. It is a comparative study of Nationalist Army and Republican Popular Army conscripts, and analyses the conflict from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-07-12
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Reluctant Warriors challenges traditional political interpretations of the Spanish Civil War, and sets it in a new and immediately human light. It is a comparative study of Nationalist Army and Republican Popular Army conscripts, and analyses the conflict from the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-07-12
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Before dawn one morning in June 1612, an elderly Frenchman took charge of a carriage carrying a precious cargo near Tyburn Fields, London's notorious place of execution. It was heading for a house in Spitalfields, where a wizened Spanish woman was waiting to receive the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-04-21
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‘Italien’ und die ‘Fremden’ im Duecento sind das Thema dieser Abhandlung. Zwei Kleriker, der Römer Saba Malaspina und der Minorit Salimbene da Parma, reflektieren gegen Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts über die oft tragischen Ereignisse der vorangegangenen Jahrzehnte. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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This book is the first modern overview of the history of historiography in Spain. It covers sources from Juan de Mariana’s History of Spain, written at the end of the sixteenth century, up to current historical writings and their context. The main objective of the book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Cette bataille, c'est Essling, près de Vienne, en 1809.
Editeur :
Brumes de mars
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2009
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Spain has had a long history of exiles. Since the destruction of the last Muslim territories in Granada in 1492, wave after wave of its people have been driven from the country. The Disinherited paints a vivid picture of Spain’s diverse exiles, from Muslims, Jews and...
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Penguin
Parution :
2008-11-06
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This book provides a cultural history of Spanish politics from the civil war of 1833 to the Spanish adoption of the Euro in 2002, a period dominated for the most part by violent military interventions in the political process, a succession of weak, unstable, but...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-12-07
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This book provides a cultural history of Spanish politics from the civil war of 1833 to the Spanish adoption of the Euro in 2002, a period dominated for the most part by violent military interventions in the political process, a succession of weak, unstable, but...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-12-06
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Acts of Giving examines the issues surrounding donation - the giving of property, usually landed property - in northern 'Christian' Spain in the tenth century, when written texts became very plentiful, allowing us to glimpse the working of local society.
Wendy Davies...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-11-01
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Unravelling the debate about the Spanish nation and its identity in the new democracy, this book looks at the issue as both a historical debate and a contemporary political problem, particularly complex due to the legacy of the Francoist Dictatorship which deeply eroded...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-10-25
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This 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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-06-28
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This 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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-06-28
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While scholars have marvelled at how accused witches, mystical nuns, and aristocratic women understood and used their wealth, power, and authority to manipulate both men and institutions, most early modern women were not privileged by money or supernatural contacts....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-12-08
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Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2004-03-25
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