A history of Spain from the beginnings to the present day /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Altamira, Rafael, 1866-1951
Other Authors: Lee, Muna, 1895-1965 (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:A translation of the 2nd ed. (Spanish) of A history of Spain by R. Altamira.
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; New York : Van Nostrand Co., 1952, ©1949.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Prehistoric times
  • The period of Eastern colonization
  • Roman rule
  • Christianity
  • The Visigoth domination
  • Moslem domination : the empire (711-912)
  • The caliphate of Cordova and Moslem ascendency
  • The great Christian advance from the eleventh to the thirteenth century and the beginning of cultures properly termed Spanish
  • End of the reconquest and beginning of the political unity of Spain (1252-1516)
  • The period of Spain's ascendancy and its conclusion (1516-1700)
  • The eighteenth century and the House of Bourbon
  • The new liberal ideas and the first crisis of the Bourbon monarchy
  • The struggle for Constitutionalism and the economic and cultural renascence
  • The dictatorship and the second republic
  • A selected bibliography on Spanish history
  • Principal dates in the history of Spain
  • Chart of parallel events in the history of Spanish civilization and that of other countries.