The life of persecuted minorities, as well as that of the wealthy and the ordinary people of Spain during the Spanish Inquisition, comes alive in this illuminating account. For three and a half centu
Introduces the reader and traveller to historical Spain, from the earliest period to the Moslem conquest in A.D. 711. The historical perspective is given tangible substance by the identification and l
The French Revolution sought to change daily life itself. This book looks at the thirteen years between 1789-1802 that experienced the Terror, banning of the aristocracy, and the rearrangement of the
This informative, concise, and engagingly written work provides the most up-to-date history of Portugal, current through 1999, and gives a full picture of the political, social, cultural, and economi
Anderson (emeritus, U. of Calgary, Canada) situates the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) in socio-historical context. A particularly intriguing chapter is on foreign intellectuals' and changing Spanish wom
Strict requirements of space were no doubt the factor behind the unfortunate brevity of the entries in this otherwise useful guide to ancient (prehistoric through medieval) sites in France. Anderson
