The Spaniards

The Spaniards
Author: Americo Castro
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2024-06-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520378571

This ambitious book by Américo Castro is not simply a history of the Spanish people or culture. It is an attempt to create an entirely new understanding of Spanish society. The Spaniards examines how the social position, religious affiliation, and beliefs of Christians, Moors, and Jews, together with their feelings of superiority or inferiority, determined the development of Spanish identity and culture. Castro follows how españoles began to form a nation beginning in the thirteenth century and became wholly Spanish in the sixteenth century in a different way and under different circumstances than other peoples of Western Europe. The original material of this book (chapters II through XII) was translated by Willard F. King, and the newly added material (preface, chapters I, XIII, and XIV, and appendix) was translated by Selma Margaretten. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

The New Spaniards

The New Spaniards
Author: John Hooper
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2006-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0141927747

A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain. The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary preoccupations exist side by side. Focussing on issues which affect ordinary Spaniards, from housing to gambling, from changing sexual mores to rising crime rates. John Hooper's fascinating study brings to life the new Spain of the twenty-first century.

Aztecs and Spaniards

Aztecs and Spaniards
Author: Albert Marrin
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1986
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Describes the history and culture of the Aztec Indians in the Valley of Mexico and discusses how the arrival of the conquistador Hernando Cortes brought about the fall of their mighty empire.

The Spaniards

The Spaniards
Author: Americo Castro
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2024-07-19
Genre:
ISBN: 0520415280

Spaniards in Mauthausen

Spaniards in Mauthausen
Author: Sara J. Brenneis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2018-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487512961

Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work. Diverse accounts from survivors of Mauthausen, chronicled in letters, artwork, photographs, memoirs, fiction, film, theatre, and new media, illustrate how Spaniards have become cognizant of the Spanish government’s relationship to the Nazis and its role in the victimization of Spanish nationals in Mauthausen. As political prisoners, their numbers and experiences differ significantly from the millions of Jews exterminated by Hitler, yet the Spaniards in Mauthausen were nevertheless objects of Nazi violence and witnesses to the Holocaust.

The Spaniards

The Spaniards
Author: John Hooper
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN:

Since Franco's death Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes - a nation where traditional values vie with increased sexual freedom, where the meseta and sierras are becoming deserted while the workers' suburbs are packed with a new, streetwise generation. John Hooper's authoritative study of this new Spain focuses on issues affecting the ordinary Spaniard - housing, education, religion, public and private morality. He illuminates the quirks of a society of police trade unions and wife-swapping bars, a nation in which the king pays tax yet almost tow thirds of the unemployed do not qualify for welfare payments.

History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru

History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru
Author: Titu Cusi Yupanqui
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2006-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1603840168

Catherine Julien's new translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Relasçion de como los Españoles Entraron en el Peru--an account of the Spanish conquest of Peru by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire--features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this remarkably rich source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts.

Notes on Spain and the Spaniards

Notes on Spain and the Spaniards
Author: A. Carolinian
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2022-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3375039530

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.