{"product_id":"culture-and-customs-of-spain-1","title":"Culture and Customs of Spain","description":"Modern Spain is a revelation in this up-to-date overview. Stanton vibrantly describes the startling variety of landscape, people, and culture that make up Spain today. Included are a context chapter and others on religion, customs, media, cinema, literature, performing arts, and visual arts. Students of Spanish and a general audience will be rewarded with engrossing insights into what writer Ernest Hemingway called the very best country of all.\n\nSpain is a modern European nation, yet Spaniards are fiercely tied to their individual towns and regions—with their distinct social customs, dialects or languages, foods, landscape, and lifestyles—more than to a united country. \u003ci\u003eCulture and Customs of Spain\u003c\/i\u003e conveys the extremes, such as the hard-working Catalan contrasted to the leisurely paced Castilian, coexisting in first and third world conditions, and the love\/hate relationship with the Catholic Church. Spain's institutions are described, and its contributions to the world—from unparalleled literature and cuisine to flamenco and filmmaker Pedro Almodovar—are celebrated. A chronology and glossary complement the text.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54220235407704,"sku":"9780313360800","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/culture-and-customs-of-spain-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}