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  • "Honest Claret"

    The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland’s Favourite Wine

    Series Book 116 - Reimagining Ireland
    In the eighteenth century, Ireland’s elite could choose from a wide range of wines, but their favourite was claret – the red wine of Bordeaux. Whereas Britain’s wine drinkers turned to port in this period, and America’s elite filled their glasses with Madeira, in Ireland, claret flowed in the social world of the privileged classes. This book looks back to earliest times to trace the story of how ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • "The Centurions Vs The Hydra": French Counterinsurgency In The Peninsular War (1808-1812)

    Considered the first documented commitment of a Western-style army facing a nation-wide insurgency, the Peninsular War deserves a critical examination of French pacification methods. In spite of a severe defeat, the Grande Armee achieved success while conducting counterinsurgency operations in Aragon and Andalusia. Based on Spanish, French and British primary sources, this thesis intended to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 'Black but Human'

    Slavery and Visual Art in Hapsburg Spain

    'Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb 'Black but Human' is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens through which to explore the ways in which a certain visual representation of slavery both embodies and reproduces hegemonic visions of enslaved and ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • 'Lector Ludens'

    The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes

    by Michael Scham ...
    In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction.Shifting fluidly between ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 'Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings

    Series series Economic Ideas that Built Europe Series
    "Report on the Agrarian Law" (1795) and Other Writings' is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos’s 'Informe sobre la Ley Agraria' (1795). A major work of political economy and a beautifully crafted philosophical history of Spain’s political development until the eighteenth century, 'Informe sobre la Ley Agraria' ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 059 The History of Alquerque-12. Remaining countries.

    Volume II.

    Govert Westerveld (Monnickendam - Holland, 1947), is a former draughts player, official Chronicler of the town of Blanca (Murcia - Spain), Hispanist, historian and researcher of the Chess, Draughts and Alquerque-12 games.The first Spanish books about the game of draughts have a very high standard and date from the XVI century, while the first French book comes from the XVII century and the game ... Read more

    $11.10 USD

  • 090 The History of alquerque-12. Texts of the game - Volume III.

    The reason to write three volumes about alquerque-12 was due to the fact that there are researchers who affirm that alquerque-12 was a very popular game in France. On the other hand they confirm that alquerque-12 is a draughts game played in the Roman times. In Volume I we have shown that the alquerque-12 board was not popular in France, but in Spain while in Volume II it becomes clear that the ... Read more

    $11.10 USD

  • 10 Curiosities about Portugal

    by João Mendes ...
    Portugal, a small European country with multiple charms, attracts more and more tourists.What is so special about this nation?This eBook reveals 10 curiosities (historical, social, tourist) that help answer this question. ... Read more

    $3.88 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Amazing Facts About Spain

    Series Book 8 - Countries of the World
    In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the country of Spain. Separated into sections such as its geography, its landmarks, famous Spanish figures from history and many more you will find some fascinating information inside! Whether you are planning on visiting Spain, working on a geography project or just want to know more about this beautiful country, this is an ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1494

    How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half

    "This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, and religious cruelties. It sounds like Shakespeare and it could have very well been the plot of one of his plays."--Toronto StarIn 1494, award-winning author Stephen R. Bown tells the untold story of the explosive feud between monarchs, clergy, and explorers that split the globe between Spain and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 1521

    Rediscovering the History of the Philippines

    by Judy Robinson ...
    In rediscovering these stories about our shared history, we learn who we were, who we are, and who we can be.Adventure can be uncovered in the most unexpected of places. In 1521: Rediscovering the History of the Philippines, author Judy Robinson takes a deep dive into the forgotten stories of Filipinos in the advent of Spanish colonization, beginning with Ferdinand Magellan’s arrival in the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1815 — Waterloo [Illustrated Edition]

    Translated by S. R. Willis ...
    Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations.Houssaye’s history of the 1815 campaign stands out as perhaps the most complete and least biased French account of the campaign that culminated in the downfall of Napoleon. Filled with detail from numerous French sources and written in a light style, it provides a complete look at the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1984 And The Spanish Civil War

    Forgotten Stories From Spain, #2

    by Paul Read ...
    Series Book 2 - Forgotten Stories From Spain
    In 1937, George Orwell spent six months witnessing the rise and fall of a popular revolution on the streets of Barcelona and Catalonia. Alone amongst his contemporaries, Orwell understood what the success or failure of that Spanish Revolution would mean for the rest of the world.1984 And The Spanish Civil War explores the background to the Civil War and the hidden anarchist revolution within a ... Read more

    $3.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 228 The Fall of a People

    The adoption of customs, food, records, clothing, book banning, censorship, religion, and language.

    History, in its didactic and enlightening nature, warns us against the pitfalls of repeating age-old mistakes. It safeguards us from collective amnesia that could drag us toward the recreation of the same tragedies. In its didactic mastery, it exposes the lessons that arise from actions and choices of the past, not only at the national level but also on the international stage. It cautions us ... Read more

    $3.33 USD

  • A Bad Peace and a Good War

    Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795–1799

    by Mark Santiago ...
    This book challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace between the occupying Spaniards and the Apaches, Mark Santiago sees in the Mescalero Apache attacks on the Spanish beginning in 1795 a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Boy In The Peninsular War – The Services, Adventures, And Experiences of Robert Blakeney, Subaltern in the 28th Regiment.

    Robert Blakeney was by modern standards a callow youth at the age of fifteen, in the standards of the time in which he lived he was a gentleman and a soldier. Blakeney was commissioned as a subaltern in the 28th Regiment, he was to see tough and trying service in the Peninsular under both Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington. Although the author eschews any literary pretensions, claiming that ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of Portugal

    Indispensable for Travellers

    by Jeremy Black ...
    This is a comprehensive history of Portugal that covers the whole span, from the Stone Age to today. An introduction provides an understanding of geographical and climatic issues, before an examination of Portugal's prehistory and classical Portugal, from the Stone Age to the end of the the Roman era.Portugal's history from ad420 to the thirteenth century takes in the Suevi, Visigoths and Moors. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Spain

    Indispensable for Travellers

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is very open to regional variations and to the extent that the history of the peninsula and of its political groupings was far from inevitable. Its tone is accessible, supported by boxes providing supplemental information, and is perfect for travellers ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Brief History Of The Kings Royal Rifle Corps, 1755 To 1915

    The Kings Royal Rifle Corps, or the 2nd Battalion the Royal Green Jackets as they are now known, had a long and proud fighting tradition that they would exchange with no other regiment in the British Army. Originally raised from American colonists in 1756, their skill in fighting the French and their native American allies in the woods in the north of the nascent America was legendary; the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of the Spanish Language

    “As in the first edition, Pharies debunks—in an engaging manner—a number of ‘linguistic myths’ about Spanish orthography, pronunciation, and grammar.” —ChoiceSince its publication in 2007, A Brief History of the Spanish Language has become the leading introduction to the history of one of the world’s most widely spoken languages. Moving from the language’s Latin roots to its present-day forms, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A British Rifleman - the Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, during the Peninsular war and the campaign of Waterloo

    The journals and correspondence of George Simmons add a further lustre to the excellent memoirs and books that men of the 95th Rifles left of the adventures, hard fought actions and grim experiences of the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign. Simmons was commissioned into the 1st Battalion 95th Rifles, a fellow officer of Sir John Kincaid and Sir Harry Smith both of whom left valuable memoirs ... Read more

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  • A Campaign Of Ropes:

    An Analysis Of The Duke Of Wellington’s Practice Of Military Art During The Peninsular War, 1808 To 1814

    The purpose of this paper was to study the practice of military art at the operational level of war. The story of Wellington’s ultimate success against Napoleon’s Marshals was selected as a case study as it seemed rich in the application of mental agility to achieve an asymmetrical military advantage in a theater of war. As military theory recognizes two general types of military art, classical ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cavalry Officer In The Corunna Campaign 1808-1809:

    The Journal Of Captain Gordon Of The 15th Hussars

    Captain Gordon led a troop of the 15th Hussars during the first of the British army’s campaigns into Spain, commanded by Sir John Moore. Unearthed and published many years after it was written by the esteemed Regimental historian Colonel Wylly, his diary bears testimony to the events of the retreat to Corunna.Gordon writes of his adventures with verve, wit and in some places a little venom when ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Chance to Fight Hitler

    A Canadian Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War

    by David Goutor ...
    In late 1936, as Franco’s armies stormed toward Madrid, Stalin famously termed the defence of Spain “the common cause of all advanced and progressive mankind.” As a German emigrant to Winnipeg, Hans Ibing recognized the importance of the Spanish Civil War to the struggle against worldwide fascism in a way that most people in Canada did not—joining the International Brigades in their fight to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD