... Edward Gilbert, Martin “Golden Age,” Spanish Gómez, Mari Gómez, Ruy Gómez de Castro, Alvar Góngora, Luis de Gonzaga, Vespasiano, viceroy of Valencia Goytisolo, Juan Granada deportation of Moriscos expulsion fivehundredth anniversary ...
From the last decade ofthe twentieth century onward, a stream of books by U.S. conservatives has de- picted Latino immigration as a threat to America's security and cultural iden- tity; their essential preoccupations are reflected in ...
In The Savage Frontier, acclaimed author and journalist Matthew Carr uncovers the fascinating, multilayered story of the Pyrenees region—at once a forbidding, mountainous frontier zone of stunning beauty, home to a unique culture, and a ...
Acclaimed journalist and historian Matthew Carr exposes how this strategy, which Sherman called “indirect warfare,” became the central preoccupation of war planners in the twentieth century and beyond.
Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on “the brutal frontiers of new Europe,” Fortress Europe is the story of how the world’s most affluent region—and history’s greatest experiment with globalization—has become an ...
Fortress Europe investigates that confrontation on Europe's 'hard borders.
Yet however unprecedented in scope the new terrorist organizations might appear, Matthew Carr argues in this history of terrorism that they are merely offshoots of a spectacular bombing in 1881.
Blood and Faith is a riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of Muslim Spain.
By 1614 Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist. Blood and Faith is Matthew Carrs riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of the history of Muslim Spain.
Here is a remarkable window onto a little-known period in modern Europe - a rich and complex tale of competing faiths and beliefs, of cultural oppression, and resistance against over-whelming odds." --Book Jacket.
With a significant resonance to the prejudice Muslims recently faced with the controversial words of Christian Pastor Terry Jones, Blood and Faith chronicles the expulsion of Muslims from Spain in the early 17th century.