Spain & Portugal 17

Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin have shown that flanerie is anything but an aimless stroll. Walking through London, Paris, and Berlin entailed engagements with the latest mo……続きを見る

The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? Th……続きを見る

Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston’s new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civ……続きを見る

Vasco da Gama, born at Sines, a small seaport of Portugal, of a noble family, discovered the route to the East Indies by sea ー a discovery of the greatest importance, not only in regard to commerce……続きを見る

The History of the Empire of the Musulmans in Spain and Portugal: From the First Invasion of the Moors, to Their Ultimate Expulsion from the Peninsula 続きを見る

Marching against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland begins with the question: why is it so problematic for the majority of people in the Basque town of Hondarribia to accept the……続きを見る

En este compendio no examinaremos las relaciones franco-españolas en los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con el régimen de Vichy, durante el cual el mariscal Philippe Petain accedió a ciertas pet……続きを見る

The guerrilla struggle against Francoism arose in the days following the army revolt against the Spanish Republic on 18 July 1936. In areas which fell immediately to the mutinous army the principal ……続きを見る

Por razones generalmente partidistas, la resistencia libertaria contra el franquismo ha sido frecuentemente olvidada en la historiografía del antifranquismo. Pero este “olvido” es aún ……続きを見る

Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn against this ‘one-sex’ model, with hermaphr……続きを見る

As Spain encountered economic and political crises in the seventeenth century, the imagery of musical performance was invoked by the state to represent the power of the monarch and to denote harmony……続きを見る

As Grand Chancellor to the Holy Roman Emperor, Mercurino di Gattinara (1465–1530) shaped the administration and aims of the Spanish Empire. Ard Boone situates Gattinara at the heart of Renaissance p……続きを見る

Mario de Araujo Cabral became Portugal's first Formula One driver when he qualified for the Grand Prix of Portugal in 1959. His name was soon blackened by an incident when he pulled onto the track a……続きを見る

From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on o……続きを見る

Building on decades of research, leading scholar Ronald H. Chilcote provides a definitive analysis of the 1974–1975 Portuguese revolution, which captured global attention and continues to resonate t……続きを見る

In three years, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, leading a few hundred Spanish soldiers, overcame a centuries-old empire that could put tens of thousands of warriors on the field. Even after ……続きを見る

Nel presente lavoro si esamina lo svolgimento della battaglia di Guadalajara, le operazioni, le perdite delle due parti, basata sulle cifre e sui documenti d’archivio e i diari di guerra delle unità……続きを見る

Dell’impiego in linea del Corpo Truppe Volontarie, inviato da Mussolini in aiuto ai nazionalisti di Franco a partire dal 1936, la storiografia e la pubblicistica corrente concentri la propria attenz……続きを見る

Dell’impiego in linea del Corpo Truppe Volontarie, inviato da Mussolini in aiuto ai nazionalisti di Franco a partire dal 1936, la storiografia e la pubblicistica corrente concentri la propria attenz……続きを見る

In questa ucronia s'immagina un'inversione dei destini politici di Italia e Spagna nel Novecento. La prima si libera di Mussolini proclamando la neutralità alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale, la seconda s……続きを見る

Il 22 settembre 1938 - nel mezzo dei furiosi combattimenti sull’Ebro - nella vana illusione di ottenere come contropartita il ritiro dei contingenti italiano e tedesco, il governo della Repubblica S……続きを見る

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain are most often remembered for the epochal voyage of Christopher Columbus. But the historic landfall of October 1492 was only a secondary event of the year.……続きを見る

This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the origins of key parts of most known medieval Spanis……続きを見る

In the summer of 1588, a great body of ships sailed from Spain on a Crusade: to restore England to Catholicism. The ensuing events brought a Spanish word, armada, into the English language and creat……続きを見る

A queda da PT, vendida ao desbarato a Altice em 2015, e um espelho de duas decadas de democracia em Portugal. Uma empresa que chegou a ter cerca de 20 mil trabalhadores, e cujas acc?es valeram 13,9 ……続きを見る

The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of Spanish empire into Peru shaped the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and transculturation took place, f……続きを見る

Everyone has gone away... We too should no longer be here. Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, def……続きを見る

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedralーone of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all……続きを見る

On April 26, 1937, a massive aerial attack by German and Italian forces reduced the Basque city of Gernika to rubble and left more than sixteen hundred people dead. Although the assault was initiate……続きを見る

Beginning at 5.00 in the morning of 17 August, 1963, in the execution chamber of Carabanchel Prison, Madrid, two anarchists ーFrancisco Delgado and Joaquin Delgado of ‘Defensa Interior’, the anti-Fr……続きを見る