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Spain
For younger readers | Spain: History | Spain: Politics, Society, and Culture | Spanish literature
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For younger readers
Kohen, Elizabeth. Spain. 2nd ed. Benchmark, 2003. For readers in grades 5 to 7.
Mann, Kenny. Isabel, Ferdinand and Fifteenth-Century Spain. Benchmark, 2001. For readers in grades 6 to 9.
Millar, Heather. Spain in the Age of Exploration. Marshall Cavendish, 1999. For readers in grades 5 to 8.
Rogers, Lura. Spain. Children's Press, 2001. In the Enchantment of the World series, for readers in grades 4 to 8.
Spain: History
Balfour, Sebastian. The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923. Oxford University Press, 1997. Examines Spain's war with the United States in 1898, and the economic and political effects of that war.
Beevor, Anthony. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin, 2001. A military history of the Spanish conflict and Franco's triumph.
Bendiner, Elmer. The Rise and Fall of Paradise: When Arabs and Jews Built a Kingdom in Spain. Putnam 1983. Reprint Dorset, 1990. A history of the Jews and Arabs in Andalusia.
Bessie, Alvah, and Albert Prago, eds. Our Fight. Monthly Review, 1987. “Writings by Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Spain, 1936-1939” (title page).
Carr, Raymond. Spain: A History. Oxford University Press, 2000. An authoritative overview of Spain and its pivotal role in history.
Crow, John A. Spain: The Root and the Flower: A History of the Civilization of Spain and of the Spanish People. University of California Press, 1985. Examination of culture.
Fletcher, Richard. The Quest for El Cid. Oxford University Press, 1991. Tracing the historical roots of Spain's national hero.
Fraser, Ronald. Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War. Pantheon, 1979, 1986. Interviews re-creating the climate of the time.
Josephs, Allen. White Wall of Spain: The Mysteries of Andalusian Culture. Iowa State University Press, Reprint, University of West Florida Press, 1983. 1990. Andalusian culture explained.
Pierson, Peter. The History of Spain. Greenwood, 1999. An introduction to Spanish history.
Tardiff, Joseph C., and L. Mpho Mabunda, eds. Dictionary of Hispanic Biography. Gale, 1996. Biographical entries on people from the United States, Latin America, and Spain, from the 15th century to the 1990s.
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Spain: Politics, Society, and Culture
The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. Photographs of a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition.
Balfour, Sebastian, and Paul Preston. Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, 1999. Places Spanish politics within an international context.
Brown, Jonathan. Painting in Spain: 1500-1700. Yale University Press, 1998. Surveys the development of painting during Spain's Golden Age.
Crow, John A. Spain: The Root and the Flower: A History of the Civilization of Spain and of the Spanish People. University of California Press, 1985. Examination of culture.
Ellis, Havelock. The Soul of Spain. Greenwood, 1976. Classic exploration of the romance, spiritualism, and genius of the people; originally published in 1937.
Gres, David T. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Spanish culture from the revolution of 1868 to the beginnings of democracy.
Heywood, Paul. The Government and Politics of Spain. St. Martin's, 1995. Spanish politics after Franco.
Hitt, Jack. Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain. Simon & Schuster, 1994. The author's description of his walking journey to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela.
Moffitt, John. The Arts in Spain. Thames & Hudson, 1999. A panoramic study of Spanish art from prehistory to postmodernism.
Perez Diaz, Victor. The Return of Civil Society: The Emergence of Democratic Spain. Harvard University Press, 1993. Examination of present-day Spanish politics.
Salvadó, Francisco J. Romero Twentieth-Century Spain: Politics and Society in Spain, 1898-1998. St. Martin's, 1999. The story of Spain's struggle toward democracy.
Tardiff, Joseph C., and L. Mpho Mabunda, eds. Dictionary of Hispanic Biography. Gale, 1996. Biographical entries on people from the United States, Latin America, and Spain, from the 15th century to the present.
Spanish literature
Debicki, Andrew. Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond. University Press of Kentucky, 1994. Detailed survey of the history and context of modern Spanish verse.
Foster, David William, and others, eds. Spanish Literature. 3 vols. Garland, 2001. Covers the most seminal of Spain's authors, from the early picaresque tradition to today's more modernist impulses.
Gonzalez, Margaret. Literature of Protest: The Franco Years. University Press of America, 1998. Study of the relationship between literature and political opposition in Spain during the Franco regime.
Robins, Jeremy. The Challenges of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature. Rowan & Littlefield, 1998. A concise introduction to Spanish Baroque literature and culture.
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