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  • Christopher Columbus's Naming in the 'diarios' of the Four Voyages (1492-1504)

    A Discourse of Negotiation

    by Evelina Guzauskyte ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In this fascinating book, Evelina Gužauskytė uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants.Gužauskytė challenges the common notion that Columbus’s acts of naming were merely an imperial attempt to impose his will on the terrain. Instead, she argues that they were the result of the collisions ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • Don Quixote (Illustrated)

    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ...
    This Illustrated & Translated edition of "Don Quixote" includes: Illustrations of objects and places mentioned in the novel. Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled as the first modern novel and one of the greatest ever written. Don Quixote is also one of the most-translated books in the world. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Need Nothing

    Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period

    by Robert Richmond Ellis ...
    The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how these writings depict Asia and Asians as both similar to and different from Europe and Europeans, and ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Artículos de costumbres

    by Mariano José de Larra

    Edited by Daniel Muñoz Sempere ...
    Series series Hispanic Texts
    This is an annotated critical edition of Artículos de costumbres by the Romantic journalist Mariano José de Larra (1809–37), presented with a critical introduction, study guide, glossary and chronology. Larra is still one of the most widely studied Spanish Romantic authors, and his satire of customs and manners in articles such as El castellano viejo, Vuelva usted mañana and Nochebuena de 1836 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Parables of Coercion

    Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

    by Seth Kimmel ...
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unlike previous books on conversion in early modern Spain, however, Parables of Coercion focuses not on the experience of the converts themselves, but ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imperial Lyric

    New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain

    by Leah Middlebrook ...
    Series series Penn State Romance Studies
    Present scholarly conversations about early European and global modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early modern Spain form the backdrop for Imperial Lyric, which seeks to address this shortcoming. Based on readings of representative poems by eight Peninsular writers, Imperial Lyric demonstrates that the lyric ... Read more

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  • Food Matters

    Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain

    by Carolyn A. Nadeau ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: “A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an additional squab on Sundays.”Through an inventive and original engagement with this text, Carolyn A. Nadeau explores the shifts in Spain’s cultural and gastronomic history. ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • José Bergamín

    A Critical Introduction, 1920-1936

    by Nigel Dennis ...
    Series series Heritage
    Writer, critic, and cultural activist José Bergamín (1895-1983) was unjustly relegated to the sidelines of contemporary Spanish intellectual life for reasons that have more to do with his political dissidence and long periods of exile than with the interest and importance of his written work. This book represents the first attempt to come to terms with that work.Professor Dennis's study focuses on ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Edging Toward Iberia

    by Jean Dangler ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study of Iberia’s complex heterogeneity.In Edging Toward Iberia Jean Dangler argues that new tools and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women

    by Sarah Leggott ...
    Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved individual and collective past. It discusses the different narrative models and strategies used in these ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Constructing Spain

    The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953–2003

    by Nathan Richardson ...
    Does fiction do more than just represent space? Can our experiences with fictional storytelling be in themselves spatial? In Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, Nathan Richardson explores relations between cultural representation and spatial transformation across fifty years of Spanish culture. Beginning in 1953, the year Spanish space was officially ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

    by David Wheat ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zones, first Upper Guinea and then Angola, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD