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Catalonia
Spain | Spain: History
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The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. Photographs of a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition.
Balfour, Sebastian. The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923. Oxford University Press, 1997. Examines Spain's war with the United States in 1898, and the economic and political effects of that war.
Bendiner, Elmer. The Rise and Fall of Paradise: When Arabs and Jews Built a Kingdom in Spain. Putnam, 1983. A history of the Jews and Arabs in Andalusia.
Bessie, Alvah, and Albert Prago, eds. Our Fight. Monthly Review, 1987. “Writings by Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Spain, 1936-1939” (title page).
Carr, Raymond. Modern Spain, 1875-1980. Oxford University Press, 1981. Scholar's view on the political milieu of the period.
Crow, John A. Spain: The Root and the Flower: A History of the Civilization of Spain and of the Spanish People. University of California Press, 1985. Examination of culture.
Elliott, J. H. Spain and Its World, 1500-1700. Yale University Press, 1989. Spain in the modern era.
Fletcher, Richard. The Quest for El Cid. Oxford University Press, 1991. Tracing the historical roots of Spain's national hero.
Fraser, Ronald. Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War. Pantheon, 1979, 1986. Interviews re-creating the climate of the time.
Intro. Raymond Carr. The Spanish Civil War: A History in Pictures. Norton, 1986. A visual introduction.
Irving, Washington. The Alhambra. Sleepy Hollow, 1982. One of Spain's most famous sights, by a well-known U.S. author; first printed in 1851.
Josephs, Allen. White Wall of Spain: The Mysteries of Andalusian Culture. Iowa State University Press, Reprint, University of West Florida Press, 1983. 1990. Andalusian culture explained.
Kamen, Henry. Spain, 1469-1714. Longman, 1983. “A Society of Conflict” (title page).
Netanyahu, B. The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain. Random House, 1995. Spanish Jews and anti-Semitism during the Spanish Inquisition.
Preston, Paul. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Wadsworth, 1986. Illustrated account with Loyalist sympathies.
Southworth, Herbert R. Guernica! Guernica! A Study of Journalism, Diplomacy, Propaganda, and History. University of California Press, 1977. Exposé of a cover-up by pro-Franco government in the first aerial bombing of civilians.
Tardiff, Joseph C., and L. Mpho Mabunda, eds. Dictionary of Hispanic Biography. Gale, 1996. Biographical entries on people from the United States, Latin America, and Spain, from the 15th century to the 1990s.
Spain: History
Balfour, Sebastian. The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923. Oxford University Press, 1997. Examines Spain's war with the United States in 1898, and the economic and political effects of that war.
Beevor, Anthony. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin, 2001. A military history of the Spanish conflict and Franco's triumph.
Bendiner, Elmer. The Rise and Fall of Paradise: When Arabs and Jews Built a Kingdom in Spain. Putnam 1983. Reprint Dorset, 1990. A history of the Jews and Arabs in Andalusia.
Bessie, Alvah, and Albert Prago, eds. Our Fight. Monthly Review, 1987. “Writings by Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Spain, 1936-1939” (title page).
Carr, Raymond. Spain: A History. Oxford University Press, 2000. An authoritative overview of Spain and its pivotal role in history.
Crow, John A. Spain: The Root and the Flower: A History of the Civilization of Spain and of the Spanish People. University of California Press, 1985. Examination of culture.
Fletcher, Richard. The Quest for El Cid. Oxford University Press, 1991. Tracing the historical roots of Spain's national hero.
Fraser, Ronald. Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War. Pantheon, 1979, 1986. Interviews re-creating the climate of the time.
Josephs, Allen. White Wall of Spain: The Mysteries of Andalusian Culture. Iowa State University Press, Reprint, University of West Florida Press, 1983. 1990. Andalusian culture explained.
Pierson, Peter. The History of Spain. Greenwood, 1999. An introduction to Spanish history.
Tardiff, Joseph C., and L. Mpho Mabunda, eds. Dictionary of Hispanic Biography. Gale, 1996. Biographical entries on people from the United States, Latin America, and Spain, from the 15th century to the 1990s.
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