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Democracy and the Peaceful Transition of Spain

Franco y Bahamonde of Spain died on November 20, 1975, he had been the chief of state and the commander in chief in that country s...

How Contemporaries Depicted Hernan Cortes and Christopher Columbus

The first impression that we get is that Cortes is a determined and logical man. He attempts this journey, and has to overcome...

SPAIN AND THE 19TH CENTURY

father) and the liberals started their revolution (Romero-Marin, 2001). The period between 1833 and 1836 saw the abolition of feud...

Economic Problems of Greece and Spain in the 2008/9

amount of government borrowing not exceeding 60% of the GDP, the government deficit needs to be no more that 3% of GDP (European C...

Muslims Christians and Jews at Al Andalus

The Iberian Peninsula, that region of the world we now call Spain and Portugal, fell under Islamic rule in 711 AD. While Islamic ...

Spanish America

milestones in the history of Europe. The Portuguese, Spanish and French explorers who set out to see what lay beyond the horizon c...

Examining the Position of the PIGS Countries with Comparison to Previous Financial Crises

the financial crisis is far from over. In order to consider the crisis the current crisis can be considered and then compared to c...

Challenges and Success of San Antonio de Bexar

During the days when Texas was part of New Spain, many arrived at San Antonio de Bexar to seek success. As a result, the area on ...

Democratic Spanish King Juan Carlos

In eleven pages this research paper examines how Francisco Franco's dictatorial form of government was replaced in Spain by King J...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

Spain, the Basque Region, and Theories of Nationalism

Michael Hechters theory of what he calls "internal colonialism." He defines it as a sort of colonialism "practised by the center a...

United States and War with Spain

to grant Cuba religious and civil rights, without removing Cuba from Spains control (Volume I of The Great Republic by the Master ...

Questions on the Crusades

Cairo. Also, the recent deaths meant that there was a power vacuum and no decisive leadership anywhere. Therefore, Muslim forces n...

Goya/Executions of the Third of May, 1808

people who were followers of the European Enlightenment who supported the idea of a more "liberal, constitutional government."v Go...

Settlements in North America: Spain, France, England and Holland

Spain in the mid-1500s, privately owned French ships - pirates in the eyes of the Spanish - attacked Spanish ships and ports in th...

King Philip II of Spain

the Spanish Inquisition were used to eliminate resistance to Philips policy of centralizing power under an absolute monarchy" (Phi...

Cisneros/”Loose Woman”

called a "beast," when she all along she thought she was a woman. This humorous beginning not only shows two diametrically opposed...

Diaz del Castillo/The Conquest of New Spain

and pride of race, a lust of gold and a blind faith in their religion, together with an absolute contempt for that of other men we...

Baroque Art

Carracci at their workshop in Bologna," and Nicholas Poussin and Claude Lorrain came from France; in addition, Caravaggio came to ...

North America: Exploration And Colonization

twenty-six years after Cabots exploration was a small but critically important contribution, in that it is considered "the foundat...

Women and Higher Education

are deeply entrenched ("Academic Women Face Quiet Desperation," 2008). That is, there are inequalities in the profession, but they...

Spain And America

its landmarks Mt. McKinley and Death Valley - are the highest and lowest points on the continent, respectively (CIA, 2008a). Amer...

Spain

climate for early-cultivation) have promoted the introduction of organic agriculture, but until now there was no home market with ...

Country Comparison: Spain And The United States

spoken in the United States. At a size approximately double that of the state of Oregon, Spains population currently stands as ju...

Women's Suffrage Movement In Canada

women voting was by no means in the best interest of the country at large and the family unit in particular. Clearly, at the foun...

Islamic History in Spain

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

Commercial Appraisal of Spain

at the end of February 2002 the inflation rate was 3.1%, for 2001 it was 2.7% and for 2000 it was 3.4% (CIA, 2002, FT, 2002). I...

Holland, Surrounding Countries, and Seventeenth Century Art

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

Aztec Conquest by Spain

goes without saying that many thousands of peoples lives were spared once the Aztec nation was forced to discontinue this ceremony...

Spain and Introduction of Scooters

In ten pages this paper examines the introduction of scooters to Spain in a discussion of conditions and concerns that need to be ...