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Fashioning Spain
Fashioning Spain is a cultural history of Spanish fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries, a period of significant social, political, and economic upheaval. As Spain moved from dictatorship to…
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Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature
This book explores the ways Arabic, Jewish and Christian intellectuals in medieval Iberia (courtiers and clerics) adapt and transform the Andalusi go-between figure in order to represent their own role as…
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Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain
Hildegart Rodríguez’s sensational death at the hands of her own mother usually overshadows her fascinating life. Alison Sinclair’s examination of Rodríguez’s role as a central player in the Spanish chapter…
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Spain Transformed
This is an original and sweeping analysis of the hitherto neglected, yet pivotal. late Franco dictatorship in Spain that draws on extensive new research. Spain Transformed addresses the…
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The Freedom Line
Compared to Casablanca by the Washington Post, this a page–turning story of a group of resistance workers who secreted downed Allied fighter pilots through France and into safety in Spain…
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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came…