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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2012
Print publication year:
2010
Online ISBN:
9780511780400
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780400
Subjects:
Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
Series:
Cambridge Concise Histories
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Book description

The rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and from continual contact with outside influences. This book traces that history from prehistoric times to the present, focusing particularly on culture, society, politics, and personalities. Written in an engaging style, it introduces readers to the key themes that have shaped Spain's history and culture. These include its varied landscapes and climates; the impact of waves of diverse human migrations; the importance of its location as a bridge between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and Europe and Africa; and religion, particularly militant Catholic Christianity and its centuries of conflict with Islam and Protestantism, as well as debates over the place of the Church in modern Spain. Illustrations, maps, and a guide to further reading, major cultural figures, and places to see, make the history of this fascinating country come alive.

Reviews

"This outstanding introduction to Spanish history will attract general readers, historians, and travelers to Spain. Essential." -Choice

"...well-written and engaging tour of Spanish history." -Robert E. Scully, Sixteenth Century Journal

"A Concise History of Spain by William D. Phillips Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips is thelatest in a series of national histories written by distinguished specialists for use as“university and college textbooks and as general historical introductions for generalreaders” (ii)." -Carolyn P. Boyd, The Journal of Modern History

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Contents

Contents
References
Guide to further information
The land and its early inhabitants
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Phillips, Carla Rahn and Phillips, William D., Jr., Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), Chapter 1.
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Diversity in medieval Spain
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The rise of Spain to international prominence
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Liss, Peggy K., Isabel the Queen: Life and Times, rev. edn. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).
Phillips, William D., Jr., and Phillips, Carla Rahn, The Worlds of Christopher Columbus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Weissberger, Barbara F., Isabel Rules: Constructing Queenship, Wielding Power (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
Spain as the first global empire
Phillips, Carla Rahn and Phillips, William D., Jr., Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).
Nader, Helen, ed., Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain: Eight Women of the Mendoza Family, 1450–1650 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004).
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MacKay, Ruth, “Lazy, Improvident People”: Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).
Phillips, Carla Rahn, The Treasure of the San José: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish Succession (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
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Toward modernity: from the Napoleonic invasion to Alfonso XIII
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Boyd, Carolyn P., Praetorian Politics in Liberal Spain (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979).
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Quiroga, Alejandro, Making Spaniards: Primo de Rivera and the Nationalization of the Masses, 1923–30 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
The struggle for the Spanish soul: Republic, Civil war, and dictatorship and New Spain, new Spaniards: European, democratic, and multi-cultural
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Preston, Paul, The Coming of the Spanish Civil War: Reform, Reaction, and Revolution in the Second Republic (London and New York: Routledge, 1994).
Mendelson, Jordana, Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929–1939 (University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005).
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Hensbergen, Gijs, Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon (New York: Bloomsbury, 2004).
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Ellwood, Sheelagh M., Spanish Fascism in the Franco Era: Falange Española de las Jons, 1936–76 (New York: St. Martin's, 1987).
Richards, Michael, A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Payne, Stanley G., Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
Payne, Stanley G., The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
Miller, Lesley Ellis, Balenciaga (London: V&A, 2007).
Ofer, Inbal, Señoritas in Blue: The Making of a Female Political Elite in Franco's Spain: The National Leadership of the Sección Femenina de la Falange (1936–1977) (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2009).
Pack, Sasha D., Tourism and Dictatorship: Europe's Peaceful Invasion of Franco's Spain (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Palomares, Cristina, The Quest for Survival after Franco: Moderate Francoism and the Slow Journey to the Polls, 1964–1977 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2006).
Villalonga, José Luis, The King: A Life of King Juan Carlos of Spain (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994).
Powell, Charles T., Juan Carlos of Spain: Self-Made Monarch (New York: St. Martin's, 1996).
Preston, Paul, The Triumph of Democracy in Spain (London: Routledge, 1987).
Preston, Paul, Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy (London: Harper Perennial, 2005).
Edles, Laura Desfor, Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy after Franco (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
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Bohigas, Oriol and Buchanan, Peter, Barcelona, City and Architecture, 1980–1992 (New York: Rizzoli, 1991).
Bover, Olympia and Velilla, Pilar, Migrations in Spain: Historical Background and Current Trends (Madrid: Banco de España, Servicio de Estudios, 1999).
Crameri, Kathryn, Catalonia: National Identity and Cultural Policy, 1980–2003 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008).
Enders, Victoria L. and Radcliff, Pamela B., eds., Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999).
Romá, José María Garrut, Casa-Museu Gaudí (Barcelona: Andres Moron, 2002).
Holo, Selma, Beyond the Prado: Museums and Identity in Democratic Spain (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000).
MacRoberts, Kenneth, Catalonia: Nation Building without a State (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
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Tremlett, Giles, Ghosts of Spain: Travels through Spain and its Silent Past (New York: Walker, 2006).
Tzonis, Alexander, Santiago Calatrava: The Poetics of Movement (New York: Universe, 1999).

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