This book features colour and b&w photographs taken in 1965-69 during family holidays to Spain and Portugal. The emphasis is on broad- and narrow-gauge steam, but diesel and electric-power locomotives are also featured, as are trams and trolleybuses. The photos are accompanied by extensive commentaries.
As a world destination for its history, culture and food, Barcelona occupies a special place for international visitors and food lovers. The book reveals the culinary history of the city of Barcelona and the region of Catalonia in Spain that narrates its rich gastronomic traditions and recent epicurean revolution.
The time period of 1990-2010 marks a significant moment in Spanish literary publishing that emphasized a new focus on Africa and African voices and signaled the beginning of a publishing boom of Hispano-African authors and themes. Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990-2010 analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors ......
Workers' and Neighborhood Movements in the Portuguese Revolution
Portugal's 1974 military coup brought down the longest established fascist regime in the history of the world at that time. This book describes the days of workplace and community takeovers, of how people worked for and embodied a new model of revolution based on popular power.
A Crisis of Identity explores the construction of identity and society's influence in four Spanish plays and discusses parallels to these works in popular culture. Through close reading and analysis covering race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, the author uncovers what lies behind the mask of each play's characters.
In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created Espana Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in their homeland. Worker-oriented and avowedly antifascist, the grassroots periodical raised money for refugees and political prisoners while advancing left-wing culture and ......
In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created Espana Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in their homeland. Worker-oriented and avowedly antifascist, the grassroots periodical raised money for refugees and political prisoners while advancing left-wing culture and ......
Insight Guides Portugal Travel made easy. Ask local experts. Comprehensive travel guide packed with inspirational photography and fascinating cultural insights, now with free eBook. From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this guide to Portugal is all you need to plan your perfect trip, with insider information on ......
Explores issues in the phonology and morphology of the major Iberian languages: Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish. In this title, most of the essays are based on innovative theoretical frameworks and show how revolutions in theoretical ideas have affected the study of these languages.
