Spanish Civil War

Foreign volunteers fought on behalf of General Franco and the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War for a right-wing cause whose aim was to smash d...

During the Spanish Civil War, foreign military officers wrote highly elaborate reports of their experiences at the front. One was attaché Col. Step...

Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This ...

This book revises what we thought we knew about one of the most famous witch hunts in European history. Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcr...

This book revises what we thought we knew about one of the most famous witch hunts in European history. Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcr...

The Spanish Civil War ended in Alicante. After Catalonia fell to the Hitler and Mussolini backed military rebellion of Francos Nationalists at the ...

In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounc...

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedralone o...

Known as a time of revolutions in science, the early modern era in Europe was characterized by the emergence of new disciplines and ways of thinkin...

A nation torn apart by war. One woman steps into the crossfire.'This amazing book has everything in it: love, war, history and relevance to today. ...

The Prado takes an unconventional look at Spains most iconic art museum. Focusing on the Prado as a space of urban leisure, Eugenia Afinoguénova hi...

The Spanish Civil War continues to attract attention as a brutal political and military struggle which foreshadowed the wider war across Europe tha...

From the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War until the end of World War II, many poets around the world felt an obligation to write about the wars of...

This collection explores the role of memoria histórica in its broadest sense, bringing together studies of narrative, theatre, visual expressions, ...

Paris in the summer of 1937. A giant funeral procession wends its way from the city center eastward toward the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, accompanied ...

In 2003, the heavy shadow of the civil war still hangs over Spain, and the small Andalusian village of Quidera is no exception. A mass grave from 1...

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author...

At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air For...

This book uses Christian reactions to the Spanish Civil War to analyse the role and importance of Christianity in interwar Britain. This conflict i...