D - Spain & Portugal 1

“If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it." This was the measured and just opinion of Marshal Suchet. Out of the graveyard for reputation that S……続きを見る

Beset along the northern border of France by enemies that out-numbered him by at least five to one, where ordinary generals might have despaired, Napoleon went on to win a remarkable series of victo……続きを見る

The guns that boomed over the Napoleonic battlefield could be fired at a rate of two rounds a minute, blasting all and sundry in range to tiny pieces. No small wonder that the artillery of the perio……続きを見る

Immigrant Moroccan Women in Spain: Honor and Marriage provides an ethnographic study of Moroccan Muslim immigrant women in Spain that captures the predicaments and strategies used in their adaptatio……続きを見る

'Of all literary fakes this is surely the most impudent, ingenious, and successful. The Comtesse D'Aulnoy was never in Spain (but) she was a born traveller. Not without reason have the editors of Th……続きを見る

Laure Junot, Duchesse d’Abrantes stands as one of the most influential figures in shaping the Napoleonic era: she was no statesman, military or civil leader, but she was a hugely well connected memb……続きを見る

Laure Junot, Duchesse d’Abrantes stands as one of the most influential figures in shaping the Napoleonic era: she was no statesman, military or civil leader, but she was a hugely well connected memb……続きを見る

Novembro de 1807; Jean Andoche Junot comanda os soldados que têm como objectivo a ocupação da capital do reino de Portugal e a imposição da vontade de Napole&atil……続きを見る

The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to the revolutio……続きを見る

Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain a……続きを見る

“Next after the greatest military personage of the century, Napoleon I., the most perfect is Marshal Bugeaud.” Originally published following the disastrous Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and soon aft……続きを見る

Knighthood and chivalry are commonly associated with courtly aristocracy and military prowess. Instead of focusing on the relationship between chivalry and nobility, Jesús D. Rodríguez-Velasco asks ……続きを見る

In 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain’s northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660……続きを見る

“ De toutes les provinces de l’Espagne, l’Aragon est la plus vaste et la moins connue. Nulle autre n’a pesé aussi longtemps qu’elle sur l’histoire du monde, nulle autre n’est mieux protégée, par les……続きを見る

In the mid-nineteenth century, as European navies learned to neutralize piracy, new patterns of circulation and settlement became possible in the western Mediterranean. The Deepest Border tells the ……続きを見る

“Truly impressive. Travels uncharted terrain, moving deftly through a vast scholarship in two languages. The research is sound, the prose crisp and accessible, and the subject unquestionably importa……続きを見る

From its earliest appearance in the mid-1600s, the lyric theater form of zarzuela captivated Spanish audiences with its witty writing and lively musical scores. Clinton D. Young’s Music Theater and ……続きを見る

Theodore McLauchlin's Desertion examines the personal and political factors behind soldiers' choices to stay in their unit or abandon their cause. He explores what might spur widespread desertion in……続きを見る

This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain--over the century before the expulsion of 1492--was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focus……続きを見る

Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisio……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage part du postulat que le degré d’effervescence mémorielle est proportionnel au degré de violence subie dans le passé ou de silence imposé et perçu comme une injustice non réparée. Les mob……続きを見る

Since the end of the nineteenth century the dairy sectors of some industrialised European and American countries have experienced a phase of growth that took place at a different rate and in a diffe……続きを見る

The guns that boomed over the Napoleonic battlefield could be fired at a rate of two rounds a minute, blasting all and sundry in range to tiny pieces. No small wonder that the artillery of the perio……続きを見る

Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain, a large number of parodic works were produced that featured depictions of humourous, satirical, and comical saints. The Laughter of the Sai……続きを見る

“If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it." This was the measured and just opinion of Marshal Suchet. Out of the graveyard for reputation that S……続きを見る

After studying at St. George’s Hospital, the author was appointed assistant surgeon of the 2nd Life Guards and placed in charge of the service squadron’s that were to be posted to the Peninsular in ……続きを見る

Justice in the Marketplace in Early Modern Spain examines two late scholastic economic treatises, the Provechoso tratado de cambios of Cristóbal de Villalón (1542) and the Instrución de mercaderes o……続きを見る

Laure Junot, Duchesse d’Abrantes stands as one of the most influential figures in shaping the Napoleonic era: she was no statesman, military or civil leader, but she was a hugely well connected memb……続きを見る

“Next after the greatest military personage of the century, Napoleon I., the most perfect is Marshal Bugeaud.” Originally published following the disastrous Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and soon aft……続きを見る

“Whether among the first three to charge the French guns at Medellin, leading his troopers into the enemy ranks at Salamanca, or evolving order out of the chaos that bedevilled the Portuguese Army i……続きを見る