A popular series of guidebooks for the modern-day traveler offering information on cities and countries around the world continues, presenting up-to-date backgrounds and descriptions, detailed maps, hundreds of photographs and much more, ...
The book falls into two parts: the first providing a chronological overview of political and military events; the second reviewing the evidence for social life and organization in Visigothic Spain.
This title provides an entertaining look at the many regional styles of architecture in Spain, including such notable structures as Bilbao's Guggenheim and La Alhambra in Granada.
He instituted a system of church organization in the villages , appointing such leaders as elders of the churches . Each church had its board of elders who not only managed specific church affairs but also constituted a village council ...
A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, this book is essential reading for all those interested in Franco and the legacy of his repressive regime.
This edition has been enhanced by the addition of over 100 aerial photographs showing coastline and harbour approaches.
This collection of essays by a group of Elliott's former students examines different aspects of this important theme and develops them.
A study of how the Goths governed their provinces from their victory at Vouille in 507 until the arrival of the Arabs in Gibralter in 711.
"Los Paisanos," they were called - simple country people who lived by their own labor, isolated, threatened by hostile Indians, and restricted by law from seeking opportunity elsewhere.
Read about the Spanish explorers who came to the Americas and what they found when they arrived.