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A Balancing Act
This book reveals the development, strategy and extraordinary success of Britains secret services in Francos Spain during the Second World War. The main claim of this study is that British pressure, exercised above all through their intelligence services, led Franco to distance himself from the Axis cause and eventually embrace that of the Allies. Starting from a virtually non-existent base, the British rapidly built up a complex intelligence network in Spain that stretched from Corunna to Barcelona and from Bilbao to Gibraltar. As Spain was a non-belligerent, spy networks including those of the Germans, Italians, Portuguese and British proliferated in the Iberian Peninsula. Double-agents ab...
Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set)
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
La musique hispano-arabe, al-Ala
Musique essentiellement ibérique et médiévale, la musique andalouse témoigne de la grande capacité de brassage culturel du peuple andalou, unissant les caractéristiques identitaires de la musique liturgique et profane occidentale à celles des musiques arrivées d'Orient, produisant ainsi un style médiéval unique. Cet ouvrage se ressaisit de l'histoire de la musique andalouse en réélaborant sa théorie musicale perdue et en révisant ses concepts.
Santiago Casares Quiroga
¿Quién fue Santiago Casares Quiroga? Para llegar a conocerlo no es suficiente con un dibujo a dos tintas. En esta obra pretendemos aproximarnos a la persona y a la personalidad. Se aborda el análisis de su figura desde su vertiente más conocida, la pública como ministro y jefe del gabinete republicano, así como en la privada, familiar e íntima, enormemente relevante para entender su comportamiento público.Dentro de las páginas que tenéis entre las manos se narra el proceso de su ascenso en el espacio político local coruñés; su proyección gallega, que utiliza como plataforma de lanzamiento personal para integrarse en el proyecto republicano de construcción de la democracia espa...
History of Contra Costa County, California
Facsimile reprint of the 1882 ed. published by W.A. Slocum, San Francisco.
