Endgame for ETA: Elusive Peace in the Basque Country
ISBN: 9780199387540 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it became an aberration, a criminal and terrorist band whose persistence defied explanation. Others, mainly Basques (but only some Basques) understood ETA as the violent expression of a political conflict that remained the unfinished business of Spain's transition to democracy. Such differences hindered efforts to 'defeat' ETA's terrorism on the one hand and 'resolve the Basque conflict' on the other for more than three decades.
Endgame for ETA... The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it b...
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Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War
ISBN: 9781472505491 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War discusses the participation of volunteers of Jewish descent in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, focusing particularly on the establishment of the Naftali Botwin Company, a Jewish military unit that was created in the Polish Dombrowski Brigade. Gerben Zaagsma analyses the symbolic meaning of the participation of Jewish volunteers and the Botwin Company both during and after the civil war. He puts this participation in the broader context of Jewish involvement in the left and... Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War discusses the participation of volunteers of Jewish descent in the I... |
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650,97 zł |
Daughters of Spain
ISBN: 9780957689183 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daughters of Spain gives a gripping account of the hard won changes within society for the women of Spain, through the eyes and experiences of the women themselves. I first began to think about writing this book in the late 1980s, when I lived in Spain for a brief period. I was impressed by the way the Spanish women I met had embraced the freedom of modern life in the short period since the death of Spain's dictator General Franco, in 1975. However I did nothing about it. The years went by and I began to realise that if I didn't make a start soon, most of the women I wanted to interview... Daughters of Spain gives a gripping account of the hard won changes within society for the women of Spain, through the eyes and experiences of the ... |
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer
ISBN: 9780806144979 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490 1559) and three other survivors had walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca s account of this astonishing journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time and a touchstone of New World literature. But his career did not begin and end with his North American ordeal."" Robin Varnum... In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Tex... |
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'Lector Ludens': The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes
ISBN: 9781442648647 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes's Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction. Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in Cervantes's own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes's intense... In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, ... |
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300,45 zł |
Franco: A Personal and Political Biography
ISBN: 9780299302108 / Angielski / Twarda / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all the preceding works have tended toward one extreme of interpretation or the other. This is the first comprehensive scholarly biography of Franco in English that is objective and balanced in its coverage, treating all three major aspects of his life personal, military, and political. The coauthors, both renowned historians of Spain, present a...
General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He h...
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Crisis in an Atlantic Empire: Spain and New Spain, 1808-1810
ISBN: 9781421414249 / Angielski / Twarda / 808 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period covering 1808 to 1810, which is often called -the age of revolutions.- The study examines an accumulation of countervailing elements in a spasm of imperial crisis, as Spain and its major colony New Spain struggled to preserve traditional structures of exchange--Spain's transatlantic trade system--with Caribbean ports at Veracruz and Havana in wartime after 1804. Rooted... With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an ... |
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Women in the Peninsular War
ISBN: 9780806144788 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808-14, women are well represented--both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisible--a situation that Charles J. Esdaile seeks to address.
In Women in the Peninsular War, Esdaile looks beyond the iconography. While a handful of Spanish and Portuguese women became Agustina-like heroines, a multitude became victims, and here both of these groups receive their due. But... In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808-14, women are well represented--both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims,...
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238,27 zł |
Kabbalistic Revolution: Reimagining Judaism in Medieval Spain
ISBN: 9780813568751 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The set of Jewish mystical teachings known as Kabbalah are often imagined as timeless texts, teachings that have been passed down through the millennia. Yet, as this groundbreaking new study shows, Kabbalah flourished in a specific time and place, emerging in response to the social prejudices that Jews faced. Hartley Lachter, a scholar of religion studies, transports us to medieval Spain, a place where anti-Semitic propaganda was on the rise and Jewish political power was on the wane. Kabbalistic Revolution proposes that, given this context, Kabbalah must be understood as a...
The set of Jewish mystical teachings known as Kabbalah are often imagined as timeless texts, teachings that have been passed down through the millenni...
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671,00 zł |
Roman Lamps of Scallabis (Santarém, Portugal)
ISBN: 9781407312644 / Angielski / Miękka / 115 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work aimed to study the Roman lamps collected in AlcACova de SantarEm. The set is formed by a total of 393 unpublished fragments, although some references to some complete lamps in archaeological reports. Given the high fragmentation of the set, wasnot easy his classification and interpretation. Chronologically, the lamps was dated between the last quarter of the second century BC and the beginning of the fifth century AD. However, the largest volume of lychnological imports is from the High Empire. After the early second century AD, Scallabis seems to suffer a reduction of economic... This work aimed to study the Roman lamps collected in AlcACova de SantarEm. The set is formed by a total of 393 unpublished fragments, although som... |
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237,20 zł |
Spain's First Carlist War, 1833-40
ISBN: 9781137401748 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spain's First Carlist War was an unlikely agent of modernity. It pitted town against country, subalterns against elites, and Europe's Liberal powers against Absolute Monarchies. This book traces the individual, collective and international experience of this conflict, giving equal attention to battle fronts and home fronts.
Spain's First Carlist War was an unlikely agent of modernity. It pitted town against country, subalterns against elites, and Europe's Liberal powers a...
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The Tomb in Seville
ISBN: 9781780600086 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance The light lash of Lewis's humour and his sniffer-dog's nose for the oddball remain undiminished. - The Guardian
Crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance The light lash of Lewis's humour and his sniffer-dog's nose for the oddball remain undiminished...
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75,98 zł |
Gibraltar: A Dagger in the Spine of Spain?
ISBN: 9781845196134 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "problem" of Gibraltar has been a constant source of diplomatic tension between Britain and Spain for more than 300 years. Franco himself described the Rock as a "dagger in the spine of Spain," and it was during his dictatorship that Spain's diplomatic campaign to recover Gibraltar reached its height with the closing of the frontier in 1969. Given this background, it has long been assumed by historians and commentators that relations between Gibraltar and its Spanish neighbor have also been strained. Gareth Stockey rejects this assumption, and demonstrates that relations across the...
The "problem" of Gibraltar has been a constant source of diplomatic tension between Britain and Spain for more than 300 years. Franco himself describe...
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184,22 zł |
Global Goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1824: Circulation, Resistance and Diversity
ISBN: 9781137324047 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe.
Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examine...
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The Rosary, the Republic, and the Right: Spain and the Vatican Hierarchy, 1931-1939
ISBN: 9781845196141 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The birth of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 ushered in a period of possible secularization to Spain. Liberals welcomed legal changes, while conservatives feared the special "privileges" they enjoyed would end. The Catholic Church remained a central focus of left-wing antagonism and right-wing allegiances, and conflicts surrounding the future of religion grew severe. While members of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy had clearly supported the right and disdained the left, the actions and opinions of the Vatican and its hierarchy stationed in Spain were much more nuanced. Similarly,...
The birth of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 ushered in a period of possible secularization to Spain. Liberals welcomed legal changes, while...
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Letters of John III, King of Portugal, 1521-1557
ISBN: 9780674283077 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ejemplar poético
ISBN: 9781502511737 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ejemplar poetico," de Juan de la Cueva. Juan de la Cueva poeta y dramaturgo espanol perteneciente al Siglo de Oro (1543-1612)"
"Ejemplar poetico," de Juan de la Cueva. Juan de la Cueva poeta y dramaturgo espanol perteneciente al Siglo de Oro (1543-1612)"
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Making Peace with Spain: The Diary of Whitelaw Reid, September-December, 1898
ISBN: 9780292769229 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whitelaw Reid, according to H. Wayne Morgan, was a "leading newspaperman, more than an occasional diplomat, a power in his party's politics, a supporter of some of the best in his era's culture . . . Of all his legacy, perhaps the record he left of his part in the Peace of Paris is the most significant and most interesting. It not only reveals the workings of his mind and of the peace conference, but also suggests the complex currents that carried his country into the realities of world power in the twentieth century." In editing Reid's diary, Morgan used much material pertinent to... Whitelaw Reid, according to H. Wayne Morgan, was a "leading newspaperman, more than an occasional diplomat, a power in his party's politics, a supp... |
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Landscapes of Bacchus: The Vine in Portugal
ISBN: 9780292769311 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a country of disparate parts and of long, unbroken historical experience, there may be one dominant feature, a clue to the character of its regions. In Portugal the vine serves as this clue. The vine has been an important aspect of the Iberian landscape since prehistoric times, and farmers still use Roman methods of cultivation that have been adapted to regional physical conditions and to socioeconomic structure. Southern Portugal today is almost vineless, but in the north three areas can be distinguished by their vine forms and their products. Dan Stanislawski examines these... In a country of disparate parts and of long, unbroken historical experience, there may be one dominant feature, a clue to the character of its regi... |
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Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain
ISBN: 9780822358473 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed the practice to continue. In Global Indios Nancy E. van Deusen documents the more than one hundred lawsuits between 1530 and 1585 that indio slaves living in Castile brought to the Spanish courts to secure their freedom. Because plaintiffs had to prove their indio-ness in a Spanish imperial context, these lawsuits reveal the...
In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire were enslaved and relocated thr...
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485,72 zł |