A comprehensive guide to the culture, the history and the people of the Valencian region of Spain. While explicitly not a travel guidebook, the author takes the reader on a town-by-town cultural tour of this complex region, exposing a tortured history as he goes.
Presents a cultural history of Catalonia, exploring the distinctive nature of Catalan identity through the perspectives of political struggle, a vibrant literary tradition and world-famous innovations in architecture and the visual arts.
Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. This biography is based on numerous interviews with people who knew Barea. It revisits Barea's writing qualities and deficiencies in the context of stimulating intersections of literature and politics, and of Spain and England.
This book tells the story of today's Spanish provinces of Valencia, Castello and Alacant (Alicante), with their profound Moorish legacy.
A history of Catalonia and its centuries-long struggles for survival and, now, independence
An exploration of the unique, contradictory genius of architect Antoni GaudÃ.