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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
Author: Laurence Bergreen
ISBN-10: 006093638X
ISBN-13: 9780060936389
Published: 2004-11-02
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
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Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself.
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The Spanish Civil War
Author: Antony Beevor
ISBN-10: 0141001488
ISBN-13: 9780141001487
Published: 2001-07-01
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The Spanish Civil War is a compelling account of one of the most hard-fought and bitter wars of the twentieth century: a war of atrocities and political genocide that was a military testing ground before the Second World War for the Russians, Italians, and Germans.With his thorough and contemporary examination of the Spanish civil war, historian Antony Beevor unravels the complex events from the coup d'etat which started the war in July of 1936 to the final defeat of the Republicans in 1939. This highly readable account leaves out none of the familiar aspects, exploring them with a clear eye and providing important new insights into the war-its causes, course, and consequences.
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
Author: Giles Tremlett
ISBN-10: 0802716741
ISBN-13: 9780802716743
Published: 2008-03-04
Publisher: Walker & Company
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“Part modern social history, part travelogue, Ghosts of Spain is held together by elegant first-person prose…an invaluable book…[that] has become something of a bible for those of us extranjeros who have chosen to live in Spain. A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present.”—Sarah Wildman, New York Times Book Review The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco’s death squads finally broke what Spaniards call “the pact of forgetting”—the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe’s most voluble people have kept silent so long. In elegant and passionate prose, Tremlett unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today. Ghosts of Spain is a revelatory book about one of Europe’s most exciting countries.
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Imperial Spain: 1469-1716 (Penguin History)
Author: J. H. Elliott
ISBN-10: 0140135170
ISBN-13: 9780140135176
Published: 1990-12-04
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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A brilliant study of the sudden rise of a barren and isolated country to be the greatest power on earth, and of its equally sudden decline.
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Driving over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
Author: Chris Stewart
ISBN-10: 0783892683
ISBN-13: 9780783892689
Published: 2000-11
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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At seventeen, Chris Stewart retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a career as a sheep-shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a big-time rock star he might never have moved with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucia. Nor forged the friendship of a lifetime with his resourceful peasant neighbor, Domingo, nor watched his baby daughter Chloe grow and thrive there. Fate does sometimes seem to know what it's up to. Driving Over Lemons is funny, insightful, and charms form beginning to end.
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The New Spaniards, 2nd Edition
Author: John Hooper
ISBN-10: 0141016094
ISBN-13: 9780141016092
Published: 2006-12-08
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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A masterly portrait of contemporary Spain-fully revised, expanded, and updated Modern-day Spain is a country changing at bewildering speed. In less than half a century, a predominantly rural society has been transformed into a mainly urban one. A dictatorship has become a democracy. A once-repressed society is being spoken of as a future "Sweden of the Mediterranean." John Hooper's outstanding portrayal of the new Spanish society explores the causes behind these changes, from crime to education, gambling to changing sexual mores. This new, up-to-date edition is the essential guide to understanding twenty-first- century Spain: a land of paradox, progress, and social change.
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Turkey: A Past And A Future
Author: Arnold Joseph Toynbee
ISBN-10: 1419191276
ISBN-13: 9781419191275
Published: 2004-06-17
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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The Young Turks were not Nationalists from the beginning; the "Committee of Union and Progress" was founded in good faith to liberate and reconcile all the inhabitants of the Empire on the principles of the French Revolution. At the Committee's congress in 1909 the Nationalists were shouted down with the cry: "Our goal is organisation and nothing else[3]." But Young Turkish ideals rapidly narrowed.
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Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45
Author: Neill Lochery
ISBN-10: 1586488791
ISBN-13: 9781586488796
Published: 2011-11-01
Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe’s exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U.S., and a host of spies, secret police, captains of industry, bankers, prominent Jews, writers and artists, escaped POWs, and black marketeers. An operations officer writing in 1944 described the daily scene at Lisbon’s airport as being like the movie “Casablanca,” times twenty. In this riveting narrative, renowned historian Neill Lochery draws on his relationships with high-level Portuguese contacts, access to records recently uncovered from Portuguese secret police and banking archives, and other unpublished documents to offer a revelatory portrait of the War’s back stage. And he tells the story of how Portugal, a relatively poor European country trying frantically to remain neutral amidst extraordinary pressures, survived the war not only physically intact but significantly wealthier. The country’s emergence as a prosperous European Union nation would be financed in part, it turns out, by a cache of Nazi gold.
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Barcelona The Great Enchantress (Directions)
Author: Robert Hughes
ISBN-10: 1426201311
ISBN-13: 9781426201318
Published: 2007-09-18
Publisher: National Geographic
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Robert Hughes has been a regular visitor to Barcelona since the 1960s and published a book about the city in 1992 that was quickly hailed as a classic. In Barcelona the Great Enchantress, Hughes crafts a more personal tale of his nearly forty-year love affair with the Spanish metropolis, one of the most vibrant and fascinating cities in Europe. Beginning with a vivid description of his wedding in the splendid medieval ceremonial chamber in Barcelona's city hall, Hughes launches into a lively account of the history, art, and architecture of the storied city. He tells of architectural treasures abounding in 14th-century Barcelona, establishing it as one of Europe's great Gothic cities, while Madrid was hardly more than a cluster of huts. The city spawned such great artists as Antoni Gaudi, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Casals. Hughes's deep knowledge of the city is evident—but it's his personal reflections of what Barcelona, its people, and its storied history and culture have meant to him over the decades that sets Barcelona the Great Enchantress apart from all others' books.
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THE BURIED MIRROR
Author: Carlos Fuentes
ISBN-10: 0395672813
ISBN-13: 9780395672815
Published: 1993-09-03
Publisher: Mariner Books
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A sweeping history of Hispanic culture on both sides of the Atlantic, set in the context of Spain's own multicultural roots. "The freshest and most inspiring . . . history in this year of a thousand Columbian offerings. . . ."--Washington Post. 175 paintings, drawings, and photos.
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