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  • The Viceregency of Antonio María Bucareli in New Spain, 1771–1779

    by Bernard E. Bobb ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    When Antonio María Bucareli took up his duties in 1771 as the forty-sixth viceroy of New Spain, he assumed command of a magnificent complexity of land areas, large and small, whose people constituted a cultural and social entity ranging from the traditional Apache to the European gentleman of the Enlightenment.He governed a key area at a significant time. Shortly before Bucareli's arrival in ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    by Matthew Restall ...
    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Battle of Barrosa

    Forgotten Battle of the Peninsular War

    by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    By the winter of 181011, the armies of Napoleon had overrun most of Spain and Joseph Bonaparte sat on the throne in Madrid. But the Spanish Government had found refuge in the fortress-port of Cadiz and the Spaniards refused to admit that they had been conquered. With a British army under Sir Thomas Graham helping to defend Cadiz, the Spanish cause seemed certain to prevail.But then the Spaniards ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Frontiers of Possession

    Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

    by Tamar Herzog ...
    A "lucid" analysis of the territorial formation of Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas ( Publishers Weekly).Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Modern Colombia

    A Nation in Spite of Itself

    by David Bushnell ...
    Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells the remarkable story of a country that has consistently defied modern Latin American stereotypes—a ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • PERE BOADAS

    Pioneer of the anarcho-syndicalist action groups in 1920s Barcelona

    by Josep A Carreras ...
    Boadas i Rivas was born in Barcelona in 1894 and died in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1972. Together with Medir Mart and Pere Vandellós, he was one of the leaders of the first anarcho-syndicalist action group organised in Catalonia from late 1917 onwards, before the six-year period of “pistolerismo” erupted in Barcelona. He can, therefore, be regarded as the pioneer of those Barcelona anarcho ... Read more

    $2.73 USD

  • Transnational Revolutionaries

    The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866

    by David Doolin ...
    Series Book 71 - Reimagining Ireland
    The organization of several thousand Irish American men into a military outfit, which then attempted to invade Canada from within the United States, is a significant historical event that remains largely unexplored from an Irish and Irish American perspective. This study offers a fuller exploration of the details behind the Fenian invasion, asking why Irish immigrants were motivated to shape ... Read more

    $76.09 USD

  • Visible Empire

    Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

    by Daniela Bleichmar ...
    Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American ... Read more

    $53.29 USD

  • Speaking of Spain

    The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World

    by Antonio Feros ...
    Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century. A royal marriage united Castile and Aragon, its two largest kingdoms. The last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula fell to Spanish Catholic armies. And conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few in this period of flourishing Spanish power could define “Spain” concretely, or say with any confidence who were ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World

    The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812

    by Scott Eastman, Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Gregorio Alonso, Roberto Breña, Jordana Dym, Marcela Echeverri, Brian Roger Hamnett, Rafael Marquese, M. C. Mirow0, Tâmis Parron1, David Sartorius2, Marcela Ternavasio3, Reuben Zahler4 ...
    Series series Atlantic Crossings
    In March 1812, while Napoleon’s brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cádiz. There, as the cornerstone of a government in exile, they drafted and adopted the first liberal constitution in the Hispanic world, a document that became known as the Cádiz ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Temporary Croatization of Parts of Eastern Slovenia between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Century

    Changing Identities at the Meeting Point of Related Peoples

    by Boris Golec ...
    Series Book 3 - Thought, Society, Culture
    This book analyzes the reasons for the emergence and extinction of the Croatian name in four Slovene border regions. The author uses comparative methods and a broad spectrum of sources. In the early Modern Age, the Croatian name established itself in these areas as a temporary phenomenon, replacing the original Slovene name, which at that time had a «pre-national» content and was also used by a ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Nationalism of the Rich

    Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland

    by Emmanuel Dalle Mulle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the ‘nationalism of the rich’, defined as a type of nationalist discourse that seeks to end the economic ‘exploitation’ suffered by a group of people represented as a wealthy nation and supposedly carried out by the populations of poorer regions and/or by inefficient ... Read more

    $79.99 USD