Manuel Cortes was a Socialist Party member, an activist in the peasant reform movement and an organizer in the farm workers' unionization struggles. He also became mayor of Malaga, where he was caught up in the ferment of revolutionary Spain in the late 1930s. This title supplements Cortes' ordeal.
Athens has long been famed as the birthplace of democracy. But who actually had the power in Ancient Athens? And was the democracy an unqualified success? Tracing the development of democracy from its origins, this book examines these and other questions.
We discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution actually felt like from inside both camps. The contours of the war take shape through the words of the eyewitnesses. And though the lived experience of the participants is revealed the uniquely tragic essence of all civil war. ' Hugh Thomas, author of THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.
A magisterial history of “Napoleon’s Vietnam”, by the highly acclaimed historian of Spain In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–14), Napoleon’s six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor’s devastating defeat against the popular opposition—the guerrillas—and their British and Portuguese allies. As well as relating the histories of the great political and military figures of the war, Fraser brings to life the anonymous masses—the artisans, peasants and women who fought, suffered and died—and restores their role in this barbaric war to its rightful place while overturning the view that this was a straightforward military campaign. This vivid, meticulously researched book offers a distinct and profound vision of “Napoleon’s Vietnam” and shows the reality of the disasters of war: the suffering, discontents and social upheaval that accompanied the fighting. With a new Introduction by Tariq Ali.
This definitive account of Falklands birds has been meticulously researched. The introduction gives a detailed account of the history of ornithology in the Falklands and an overview of its avifauna. The species accounts describe the status of all 205 species recorded on the islands plus another 54 species whose occurrence has not been confirmed.
A brilliant novel about memory, love, and the clash between the old world and the new, set in 1950s Spain
Nelli ist unglücklich. Immer. Und eines Tages entdeckt ssie auch noch, dass sie so ganz anders ist, als die anderen Kinder. Und sie beginnt sich zu hassen. Sie beginnt eine lange abenteuerliche Reise zu sich selbst, bis sie schließlich ihre Einzigartigkeit lieben lernt und begreift, was Glück wirklich bedeutet.