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Author : Robert Sencourt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Spain's Uncertain Crown written by Robert Sencourt and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752470833
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book A Divided Kingdom written by Van der Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is little available on the dramatic and colourful history of the Spanish monarchy. Experienced author and historian John Van der Kiste provides a readable and anecdotal look at one of the key European dynasties from the nineteenth century to the present. He begins with the wayward, ill-educated Isabella II, who was forced to marry her nephew. During much of her reign power was in the hands of her generals and her exile and abdication saw the crown of Spain hawked round Europe for two years. It was briefly accepted then refused by Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen - thus starting the Franco-Prussian War - and, after a short, unsuccessful stint as a republic, the monarchy was restored when Isabella's son Alfonso XIII was chosen as King. John Van der Kiste leads us through his popular reign, the reign of his son - who married one of Queen Victoria's granddaughters - and the socialist movement in Spain after the Great War which led to the dictatorship of Primo de Rovera. Finishing with the Spanish Civil War, the 'reign' of General Franco and the return of the monarchy with the present King, Juan Carlos, this is a fascinating look at the Spanish Bourbons.
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Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A Civil, Commercial, Political, and Literary History of Spain and Portugal. By the Late Wyndham Beawes, Esq. His Majesty's Consul for Near Thirty Years at Candiz and Seville. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wyndham Beawes
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Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Civil, Commercial, Political, and Literary History of Spain and Portugal written by Wyndham Beawes and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Sencourt
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Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Spain's Ordeal written by Robert Sencourt and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abraham Rees
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Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cyclopædia written by Abraham Rees and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wyndham Beawes
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Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lex Mercatoria Rediviva written by Wyndham Beawes and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David J. Weber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127677
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Bárbaros written by David J. Weber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries after CortÉs and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain's conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain's American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about European ways, and often possessing firearms, independent Indians continued to find new ways to resist subjugation by Spanish soldiers and conversion by Spanish missionaries. In this panoramic study, David J. Weber explains how late eighteenthcentury Spanish administrators tried to fashion a more enlightened policy toward the people they called bÁrbaros, or "savages." Even Spain's most powerful monarchs failed, however, to enforce a consistent, well-reasoned policy toward Indians. At one extreme, powerful independent Indians forced Spaniards to seek peace, acknowledge autonomous tribal governments, and recognize the existence of tribal lands, fulfilling the Crown's oft-stated wish to use "gentle" means in dealing with Indians. At the other extreme the Crown abandoned its principles, authorizing bloody wars on Indians when Spanish officers believed they could defeat them. Power, says Weber, more than the power of ideas, determined how Spaniards treated "savages" in the Age of Enlightenment.
Author : Bartolomé de las Casas
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Indies written by Bartolomé de las Casas and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jose-Juan Lopez-Portillo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351898787
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Spain, Portugal and the Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe written by Jose-Juan Lopez-Portillo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen from the perspective of 1492, the medieval expansion of Latin Europe was nowhere as dramatic or enduring as in the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic. Its Christian kingdoms continued their advance against Al-Andalus up to 1492, whereas territorial expansion elsewhere against the Muslim world had either ceased or subsided by the late 13th century. Castile and Portugal also transformed the Atlantic Ocean from the inaccessible dead-end of Eurasia into the most promising avenue for European expansion for the first time in history. The articles collected in this volume explore the causes and the nature of this expansion, from a variety of historical traditions. They investigate the extent to which the ’transference’ of Mediterranean traditions aided this process; the characteristics of Iberian conflict that eventually led to the success of its Christian kingdoms; and the motives for launching, and techniques for running, the first European ’overseas empires’ in the unfolding Atlantic frontier. In the process they illuminate the new identities and cultural interactions that this expansion produced in its wake, while the new introduction sets them in the broader context.
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Total Pages : 1620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.
Author : Wyndham Beawes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Lex Mercatoria Or a Complete Code of Commercial Law, Being a General Guide to All Men in Business. 6th Ed. Enlarged (etc.) written by Wyndham Beawes and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases
Author : José-Juan López-Portillo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004341455
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book "Another Jerusalem" written by José-Juan López-Portillo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ‘Another Jerusalem’: Political Legitimacy and Courtly Government in the Kingdom of New Spain (1535-1568) José-Juan López-Portillo offers a new approach to understanding why the most densely populated and culturally sophisticated regions of Mesoamerica accepted the authority of Spanish viceroys. By focusing on the routines and practices of quotidian political life in New Spain, and the ideological affinities that bound indigenous and non-indigenous political communities to the viceregal regime, López Portillo discloses the formation of new loyalties, interests and identities particular to New Spain. Rather than the traditional view of European colonial domination over a demoralized indigenous population, New Spain now appears as Mexico City’s sub-empire: an aggregate of the Habsburg ‘composite monarchy’. "Embellished with wonderful illustrations, this work draws upon extensive secondary and primary sources. Scholars studying Spain's America will find it a thoughtful addition to historical literature on 16th-century New Spain." - M. A. Burkholder, University of Missouri - St. Louis, in: CHOICE, July 2018 Vol. 55 No. 11
Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307809625
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Goya written by Robert Hughes and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The Culture of Complaint), now turns his renowned critical eye to one of art history’s most compelling, enigmatic, and important figures, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. With characteristic critical fervor and sure-eyed insight, Hughes brings us the story of an artist whose life and work bridged the transition from the eighteenth-century reign of the old masters to the early days of the nineteenth-century moderns. With his salient passion for the artist and the art, Hughes brings Goya vividly to life through dazzling analysis of a vast breadth of his work. Building upon the historical evidence that exists, Hughes tracks Goya’s development, as man and artist, without missing a beat, from the early works commissioned by the Church, through his long, productive, and tempestuous career at court, to the darkly sinister and cryptic work he did at the end of his life. In a work that is at once interpretive biography and cultural epic, Hughes grounds Goya firmly in the context of his time, taking us on a wild romp through Spanish history; from the brutality and easy violence of street life to the fiery terrors of the Holy Inquisition to the grave realities of war, Hughes shows us in vibrant detail the cultural forces that shaped Goya’s work. Underlying the exhaustive, critical analysis and the rich historical background is Hughes’s own intimately personal relationship to his subject. This is a book informed not only by lifelong love and study, but by his own recent experiences of mortality and death. As such this is a uniquely moving and human book; with the same relentless and fearless intelligence he has brought to every subject he has ever tackled, Hughes here transcends biography to bring us a rich and fiercely brave book about art and life, love and rage, impotence and death. This is one genius writing at full capacity about another—and the result is truly spectacular.
Author : Santiago Pinon Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498235794
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Ivory Tower and the Sword written by Santiago Pinon Jr. and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can one be interested in social justice without participating in public protests? Must one go to jail for one's convictions in order to have integrity and legitimacy? Have academics succumbed to the negative connotations of the ivory tower by remaining in their cubicles, unaware of the social ills that threaten the very core of society? Or, is it possible for individuals who sit comfortably at their desks to have legitimate input into the evils that surround the cities in which we live? These are some of the questions that prompted The Ivory Tower and the Sword. By turning our attention to Francisco Vitoria, Santiago Pinon offers insight into a thought-provoking individual who was deeply concerned with the social injustices that his countrymen were committing. Living in the sixteenth century, Vitoria knew of the torturous practices that his fellow Spaniards had been conducting against the native peoples of the New World. Using the influence of his position as an academic theologian, Vitoria challenged these practices and held the Spanish emperor accountable for failing to intervene on behalf of the native peoples. From Vitoria we learn how to confront social ills from the ivory tower.
Author : Victor Houliston
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754658405
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England written by Victor Houliston and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, the Jesuit priest Robert Persons (1546-1610) was arguably the leading figure fighting for the re-establishment of Catholicism in England. Whilst his colleague Edmund Campion may now be better known it was Persons's tireless efforts that kept the Jesuit mission alive during the difficult days of Elizabeth's reign. In this new study, Persons's life and phenomenal literary output are analysed and put into the broader context of recent Catholic scholarship. The book bridges the gap between historical studies, on the one hand, and literary studies on the other, by concentrating on Persons's contribution as a writer to the polemical culture of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. As well as discussing his wider achievements as leader of the English Jesuits - founding three seminaries for English priests, corresponding regularly with Catholic activists in England, writing over thirty books, holding the post of rector of the English College in Rome, and being a trusted consultant to the papacy on English affairs - this study looks in detail at what is arguably his greatest legacy, The First Booke of the Christian Exercise (more commonly known as the Book of Resolution). That book, first published in 1582, was to prove the cornerstone of Persons's missionary effort, and a popular work of Catholic devotion, running to several editions over the coming years. Although Persons was ultimately unsuccessful in his ambition to return England to the Catholic fold, the story of his life and works reveals much about the ecclesiastical struggle that gripped early modern Europe. By providing a thorough and up-to-date reassessment of Persons this study not only makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the polemical context of post Reformation Catholicism, but also of the Jesuit notion of the 'apostolate of writing'.
