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  • Mary and Philip

    The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain

    by Alexander Samson ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern European History
    The co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II put England at the heart of early modern Europe. This positive reassessment of their joint reign counters a series of parochial, misogynist and anti-Catholic assumptions, correcting the many myths that have grown up around the marriage and explaining the reasons for its persistent marginalisation in the historiography of sixteenth-century England. Using new ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies

    by Xon de Ros, Jessamy Harvey, Joanna Evans, Joyce Tolliver, Laura Lonsdale, Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Louise M Haywood, Professor Margaret R Greer, Maria Ana Beatriz Masera Cerutti, Mónica Bolufer Peruga0, Nieves Baranda1, Geraldine Hazbun3, Roberta Quance4, Rosanna Cantavella5, Susan Kirkpatrick6, Alexander W Samson7, Professor Andrew M. Beresford8, Carmen Fracchia9, Frances Lannon0, Georgina Dopico-Black1, Helena Buffery2 ...
    After an introductory survey of the development of women's studies in the context of Spain, twenty-one chronologically ordered essays by scholars from Britain, the United States, Spain and Mexico explore women's roles in the cultural production of their time from the Middle Ages to the present.The essays of the first half examine the work of the earliest women writers and artists - memoirs and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Locus Amoenus

    Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance

    Edited by Alexander Samson ...
    Series Book 10 - Renaissance Studies Special Issues
    Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment.A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on garden historyEssays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • The Spanish Match

    Prince Charles's Journey to Madrid, 1623

    Edited by Alexander Samson ...
    In the spring of 1623 Charles, Prince of Wales, the young heir to the English and Scottish thrones donned a false wig and beard and slipped out of England under the assumed name of John Smith in order to journey to Madrid and secure for himself the hand of the King of Spain's daughter. His father James I and VI had been toying with the idea of a Spanish match for his son since as early as 1605, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    by Matthew Restall ...
    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Read more

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    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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  • Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

    A Course on English Literature

    by Jorge Luis Borges ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar WildeWriting for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings’ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and ... Read more

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  • Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

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  • Imprudent King

    A New Life of Philip II

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with his ascent to Paradise (1603), two occurrences ... Read more

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  • This Gulf of Fire

    The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason

    by Mark Molesky ...
    Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book AwardFinalist: Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on the moment magnitude scale swept furiously from their origin along the Atlantic seabed toward the Iberian and African ... Read more

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  • Jorge Amado

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    Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading ... Read more

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