176円 Em 1860, como em muitos períodos da sua história, em Portugal discutia-se a manutenção da independência do país, ou a sua união com Espanha para proveito mútuo. Foi neste contexto que o escritor e político português António Augusto Teixeira de Vasconcelos publicou este livro com o título «A funda...

5,804円 During the Spanish Civil War, foreign military officers wrote highly elaborate reports of their experiences at the front. One was attaché Col. Stephen O. Fuqua of the U.S. Army, who had once held the rank of major general. His presence was highly unusual, for most military observers were less-exp...

164円 Though Christopher Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas, having been preceded, five centuries earlier, by the Norse expedition, led by Leif Ericson, that established the short-lived colony of Vinland in what is now Newfoundland, Columbus' voyages led to the first las...

8,879円 This fascinating account examines the fate which overtook the principality of Catalonia in the fifteenth century, reducing it from dominance within the state of Aragon to a marginal role in the Iberian power created by the union of Aragon and Castile. It begins by studying the tensions destabilis...

1,723円 The Basque Country is a land of fascinating paradoxes and enigmas. Home to one of Europe's oldest peoples and most mysterious languages, with a living folklore rich in archaic rituals and dances, it also boasts a dynamic post-modern energy, with the reinvention of Bilbao creating a model for the ...

2,102円 It's Messi vs Ronaldo, it's Catalonia vs Castilla. It's the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs Franco's fascists. It's majestic goals and mesmerising skills, red cards and bench brawls. It's the best two teams on the planet going face to face and toe to toe. It's more than a game. It's...

195円 Abordamos aquí el Siglo de Oro así como el reinado de todos los Austrias posteriores a Carlos V.  Conoceremos a Felipe II, el Prudente; a Felipe III, el Bueno; a Felipe IV, el Abúlico y al declive de la dinastía en la persona de Carlos II, el Hechizado, culminación humana de una larga tradic...

1,455円 Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian commu...

9,551円 The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of ho...

777円 The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and sent reverberations throughout the Western world. Earth, water, wind, and fire all conspired to produce a hellish catastrophe that lasted for a full f...

526円 Esta obra narra-nos os amores e as aventuras dos habitantes da rua Escura, no Porto da época do domínio Filipino. Com o povo a revoltar-se, lentamente, contra a ocupação dos espanhóis alguns têm outras preocupações. Os corações enamorados suspiram por paixão sendo esse o principal motivo da sua p...

777円 The unexpected and moving story of an American journalist who works to uncover her family’s long-buried Jewish ancestry in Spain. Raised a Catholic in California, New York Times journalist Doreen Carvajal is shocked when she discovers that her background may actually be connected to conversos in ...