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The Spanish Labyrinth (full title: The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War) by Gerald Brenan, is an account of Spain's social, economic, and political history as the background of the Spanish Civil War. First published in 1943, it has stayed in print, with repeated reissues.
The Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes) are a collection of forty-six historical novels written by Benito Pérez Galdós between 1872 and 1912. Divided into five series, they deal with Spanish history from roughly 1805 to 1880 combined with fictional accounts and characters.
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) [2] was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.. Brenan is probably best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for a mainly autobiographical work South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village.
Revisionism is a term which emerged in the late 1990s and is applied to a group of historiographic theories related to the recent history of Spain. They are supposedly held together by posing a challenge to what is presented as a generally accepted, orthodox view on the history of the Second Republic and the Civil War. The term is used as ...
Between 1966 and 1992, Kamen taught early modern Spanish history at the University of Warwick. [3] He has worked at various universities in Spain. In 1970, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 1984 he was appointed Herbert F. Johnson Professor at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
First edition (publ. Pantheon Books) Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War (1979) by Ronald Fraser is an influential oral history of the Spanish Civil War. The contents of the book is drawn from hundreds of interviews that Fraser conducted in the 1970s with people who lived through the Spanish civil war. [1]
Ruth B. Bottigheimer catalogued this and other disparities between the 1810 and 1812 versions of the Grimms' fairy tale collections in her book, Grimms' Bad Girls And Bold Boys: The Moral And Social Vision of the Tales. Of the "Rumplestiltskin" switch, she wrote, "although the motifs remain the same, motivations reverse, and the tale no longer ...
Many scholars have debated the authenticity of the Lovers of Teruel. As James Michener argued in his 1968 book Iberia: ...especially since the Italian Boccaccio in 1353 told practically the same tale under the name ‘Girolamo e Salvestra’, except that he introduced considerable salacious and amusing material. (p.811) However: