A Day in the Life of Spain
Title | A Day in the Life of Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Smolan |
Publisher | Collins Pub San Francisco |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1988-01 |
Genre | Documentary photography |
ISBN | 9780002179676 |
Extraordinary pictures of ordinary events capture twenty-four hours of Spain on May 7, 1987
A Day in the Life of Spain
Title | A Day in the Life of Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Incorporated |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780673240347 |
Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age
Title | Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age PDF eBook |
Author | Marcelin Defourneaux |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804710299 |
A book about life in Spain from the succession of Philip II (1556) to the death of Philip IV (1665). The author relies primarily upon careful use of literary works and travel accounts written during this 'golden age'. In addition to delightful descriptions and anecdotes, he has woven into his text important political and economic developments. He provides a general view of Spain, stressing the importance of the Catholic faith and the emphasis upon personal honour, before surveying life and society in urban and rural areas. He then examines in some detail life in the Church, university, military and home; public entertainment; and the picaresque life.
Cositas Españolas; Or
Title | Cositas Españolas; Or PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Jane Harvey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | Spain |
ISBN |
Grammar Lessons
Title | Grammar Lessons PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Morano |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2007-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1587297450 |
In the thirteen personal essays in Grammar Lessons, Michele Morano connects the rules of grammar to the stories we tell to help us understand our worlds. Living and traveling in Spain during a year of teaching English to university students, she learned to translate and interpret her past and present worlds—to study the surprising moments of communication—as a way to make sense of language and meaning, longing and memory. Morano focuses first on her year of living in Oviedo, in the early 1990s, a time spent immersing herself in a new culture and language while working through the relationship she had left behind with an emotionally dependent and suicidal man. Next, after subsequent trips to Spain, she explores the ways that travel sparks us to reconsider our personal histories in the context of larger historical legacies. Finally, she turns to the aftereffects of travel, to the constant negotiations involved in retelling and understanding the stories of our lives. Throughout she details one woman’s journey through vocabulary and verb tense toward a greater sense of her place in the world. Grammar Lessons illustrates the difficulty and delight, humor and humility of living in a new language and of carrying that pivotal experience forward. Michele Morano’s beautifully constructed essays reveal the many grammars and many voices that we collect, and learn from, as we travel.
A Short History of Spain
Title | A Short History of Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Platt Parmele |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Spain |
ISBN |
Delicioso
Title | Delicioso PDF eBook |
Author | María José Sevilla |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 1789141893 |
Spanish cuisine is a melting-pot of cultures, flavors, and ingredients: Greek and Roman; Jewish, Moorish, and Middle Eastern. It has been enriched by Spanish climate, geology, and spectacular topography, which have encouraged a variety of regional food traditions and “Cocinas,” such as Basque, Galician, Castilian, Andalusian, and Catalan. It has been shaped by the country’s complex history, as foreign occupations brought religious and cultural influences that determined what people ate and still eat. And it has continually evolved with the arrival of new ideas and foodstuffs from Italy, France, and the Americas, including cocoa, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, and chili peppers. Having become a powerhouse of creativity and innovation in recent decades, Spanish cuisine has placed itself among the best in the world. This is the first book in English to trace the history of the food of Spain from antiquity to the present day. From the use of pork fat and olive oil to the Spanish passion for eggplants and pomegranates, María José Sevilla skillfully weaves together the history of Spanish cuisine, the circumstances affecting its development and characteristics, and the country’s changing relationship to food and cookery.