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  • The Edwin Fox

    How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850–1914

    by Boyd Cothran, Adrian Shubert ...
    It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. This fascinating work of global history offers a vividly ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Spanish Civil War in 100 Objects

    A Material History of the Conflict and its Legacy

    Edited by Professor Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Professor Adrian Shubert ...
    Analysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal events of 20th century through a unique material culture lens. From the plane that carried Francisco Franco to an anarchist newsreel to laxatives excavated in a trench, and from a woman's death row letter to a recent graphic novel, this highly illustrated text introduces readers to ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War

    Edited by Professor Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Professor Adrian Shubert ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    In 25 innovative thematic essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War sees an interdisciplinary team of scholars examine a conflict that, more than 80 years after its conclusion, continues to generate both scholarly and public controversy.Split into four main sections covering Military and Diplomatic Issues, Society and Culture, Politics, and Debates, the volume offers a number of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Death and Money in The Afternoon

    A History of the Spanish Bullfight

    by Adrian Shubert ...
    Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. In his brilliant new interpretation of bullfighting, Adrian Shubert maintains that this view is both the product of myth and a complete ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • Death and Money in The Afternoon

    A History of the Spanish Bullfight

    by Adrian Shubert ...
    Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. In his brilliant new interpretation of bullfighting, Adrian Shubert maintains that this view is both the product of myth and a complete ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • The History of Modern Spain

    Chronologies, Themes, Individuals

    Edited by Professor Adrian Shubert, Professor José Alvarez Junco ...
    The History of Modern Spain is a comprehensive examination of Spain's history from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Bringing together an impressive group of leading figures and emerging scholars in the field from the UK, Canada, the United States, Spain and other European countries, the book innovatively combines a strong and clear political narrative with chapters exploring a ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Globalizing Confederation

    Canada and the World in 1867

    Edited by Marcel Martel, Adrian Shubert, Jacqueline Krikorian ...
    Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada’s Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacksa range ofviewpoints, including those from foreign governments, British colonies, and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War

    Connected and Contested Histories

    Edited by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Adrian Shubert ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines contemporary public history’s engagement with the Spanish Civil War. The chapters discuss the history and mission of the main institutional archives of the war, contemporary and forensic archaeology of the conflict, burial sites, the affordances of digital culture in the sphere of war memory, the teaching of the conflict in Spanish school ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 33 No. 2, 2023

    by Benjamin Bryce, Benjamin Bryce, Julie McIntyre*, Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Chelsea Davis, Steve Stein, Kathleen A. Brosnan, Marie-Joëlle Duchesne, Sarah Carter0, M. Max Hamon1, Grace Peña Delgado2, Benjamin Hoy3, Andrew Watson4, Brian Froese5, Royden Loewen6, Donald Wright7, Hamar Foster8, Jan Noel9, Donald Smith0 ...
    Series Book 33 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Sometime in 1866, a Spaniard named Josep Soler (1840–1906) arrived in Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand. Born in Constantí in the Camp de Tarragona winemaking region south of Barcelona, Soler came from a winemaking family and was a winemaker himself before leaving Spain. He planted his first New Zealand vineyard shortly after arriving in Whanganui, and his business life was one of uninterrupted ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Social History of Modern Spain

    by Adrian Shubert ...
    Insightful and accessible, A Social History of Modern Spain is the first comprehensive social history of modern Spain in any language. Adrian Shubert analyzes the social development of Spain since 1800. He explores the social conflicts at the root of the Spanish Civil War and how that war and the subsequent changes from democracy to Franco and back again have shaped the social relations of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Spanish Civil War

    Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (Text Only)

    by Paul Preston ...
    A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco.No modern conflict has inflamed the passions of both civilians and intellectuals as much as the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39. Burned into our collective historical consciousness, it not only prefigured the imminent Second World War but also ushered in a new and horrific form of warfare that ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition)

    Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge

    by Paul Preston ...
    The definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative.Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisco Franco's brutal (and, ultimately, extraordinarily durable) fascist dictatorship, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD