David Ringrose here reexamines the history of Spain in the 18th and 19th centuries. He challenges the pessimism of prevailing assumptions about that history, and its conventional separation into pre- and post-Napoleonic eras.
Spain, 1808-1975
by Carr, Raymond, (Albert Raymond Maillard)
fromOxford history of modern europe
By recovering the inner life of the Portuguese trade diaspora (1492-1640), this book explores the relations between mobility and community; domestic sociability and trade expansion; commercial experience and early capitalist ideology; and cultural hybridity, transnationalism, an…
Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at t…
Essays in this volume explore the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary production in Spain in the 1990s.
"Through an integrative historicist approach to a wide range of literary texts and archival documents, The Stages of Property makes an important statement about the cultural, societal, and political roles of the theatre in Spain during the 1800s."--BOOK JACKET.
"An excellent, balanced discussion of important controversies."--Juan Linz, author of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. "Payne's revivalist presentation of a broad continuity of Spain's history, centered on its Castilian heartland, unfailingly maintains the standards of b…
"An excellent, balanced discussion of important controversies."--Juan Linz, author of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. "Payne's revivalist presentation of a broad continuity of Spain's history, centered on its Castilian heartland, unfailingly maintains the standards of b…