1,972円 Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and...

3,249円 In 1474, a twenty-three year old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the considerable challenge not only of being a young, female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world, but also of reforming a major European kingdom that was...

3,310円 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-1660s, Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal, came...

425円 Wolfram – also known as Tungsten – is about more than electric light bulbs. Its more deadly claim-to-fame rests in its armour-piercing qualities. During WWII, Wolfram was in great demand with both the Allies and Axis powers who scoured the globe for the precious material; indeed, they deployed hu...

1,757円 Als Ludwig Renn im Oktober 1936 in Barcelona ankommt, will er nicht nur der spanischen Republik helfen, er hat auch die unersetzlichen Erfahrungen des Weltkriegsoffiziers im Gepäck. Er wird zum Stabschef der 11. Internationalen Brigade ernannt, bewertet das Kriegsgeschehen mit bestechender Genaui...

1,012円 Written during the Spanish Civil War, published in 1943, revised in 1950 and republished in paperback in1960, The Spanish Labyrinth assesses the social and political background of the war, not the war itself. Brenanーa middle class, liberal, Anglo-Irish expatriate who lived in Spain from 1919 unt...

7,751円 Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and p...

9,570円 Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to ...

496円 This volume contains three complete works by Hiram Bingham, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and William Prescott. Bingham’s “Inca Land” provides fascinating insights into the ancient and more modern cultures of the Incas and Peru, all in the context of his discovery of Machu Picchu. Sarpiento de Gambo...

810円 ... Contrastando la información queda claro que los objetivos de Casado diferían mucho de los planteamientos de los libertarios y de los caballeristas. De hecho, nadie creía en una rendición incondicional. Los libertarios desconfiaban de un personaje militar como Casado, que lo que pretendía era ...

993円 Tan rico como el oro. (Robo del oro del Banco de España. 1936) Libro encuadrado en la Guerra Civil española, en los momentos más turbulentos de la contienda. Está basada sobre un rumor (nada de cierto), de que los anarquistas se preparaban para robar el oro del Banco de España. En este libro, se ...

1,055円 La Reforma Protestante fue un movimiento que sacudió los cimientos de la fe cristiana en Europa al inicio de la Edad Moderna. España fue uno de esos países que fue afectado por la susodicha; sin embargo, no llegó a cuajar. ¿Por qué? En el libro se intentará dar respuesta a esto y se harán unas op...