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Death in the Afternoon

by Ernest Hemingway

Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting...

The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939

by Sam Dolgoff & Murray Bookchin

A highly important study that reveals a very different understanding of the nature of radical social change, and the means of achieving it.

Historical Dictionary of the Catalans

by Helena Buffery

Historical Dictionary of the Catalans deals not only with the people who live in Catalonia, but with the language and culture of the Catalan countries. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay,...

The Institutional Dynamics of China's Great Transformation

by Xiaoming Huang

This book examines the role of institutions in China's recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. Unlike existing literature, it offers perspectives from a variety of disciplines - including...

The Portugal Story

by John Dos Passos

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

by Antony Beevor

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has...

The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy

by Barry Clifford & Kenneth Kinkor

On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.

Tracing the lives of fabled...

I am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women who went to Fight Fascism

by David Boyd Haycock

George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, John Dos Passos, Felicia Browne, John Cornford, Stephen Spender... These were just some of the talented, committed and adventure-hungry...

Romanization of Central Spain

by Leonard A Curchin

Curchin explores how, why and to what extent the peoples of Central Spain were integrated into the Roman Empire during the period from the second century BC to the second century AD.

He approaches the question...

Spanish Republican Aces

by Rafael Lopez & Julio Caeiro

At the start of the civil war, most young fighter officers joined the rebels (Nationalists). It was the high ranking officers, grupo or escuadrilla commanders, and the NCOs, sergeants and corporals who remained...

Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular War 1808-14

by Rene Chartrand & Richard Hook

Constant Spanish guerrilla activity so drained the resources and diverted the attention of the French military that Wellington was able to advance against and overcome a numerically superior enemy. So many French...

Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema

by Alberto Mira

The Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema provides a better understanding of the role Spanish cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of...

Historical Dictionary of Spain

by Angel Smith

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Spain is an unrivalled reference guide to Spanish history and politics from the Middle Ages to the present. With its chronology, introductory essay, and over...

Red Barcelona: Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the Twentieth Century

by Angel Smith

As one of Europe's great industrial and revolutionary centres Barcelona has been in need of a detailed social and cultural history, yet there is actually a paucity of detailed research. This book redresses the...

The Prehistory of Iberia: Debating Early Social Stratification and the State

by María Cruz Berrocal & Leonardo García|Gilman, Antonio Sanjuán

The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of...

Talavera 1809: Wellington's lightning strike into Spain

by Rene Chartrand & Graham Turner

The battle of Talavera in 1809 was one of the major battles of the Peninsular War and Arthur Wellesley’s first victory in Spain itself, following which he was created Viscount Wellington of Talavera and Wellington....

The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars (2)

by Rene Chartrand & Bill Younghusband

Osprey are confident in boasting that this remarkable three-part study will transform the research material available to the English-speaking student of the Peninsular War (1808-1814). Most know that Wellington's...

Came Men on Horses

by Stan Hoig

"Hoig tells this story with a sharp eye for human details--sometimes gruesome but nonetheless compelling details--that bring Coronado, Oñate, and other Spanish soldiers and priests alive in ways that I have...

British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939

by Richard Baxell

During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in...

Voices of the Old Sea

by Norman Lewis

After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes his three successive summers in that almost...