| TÃtulo : | A History of Spain and Portugal: The Penninsula and its peoples, the pattern of their society and civilization | | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | | Autores: | William C. Atkinson, Autor | | Editorial: | Great Britain : Penguin Books | | Fecha de publicación: | 1960 | | Número de páginas: | 382 p | | ISBN/ISSN/DL: | L02690 | | Etiquetas: | HISTORIA ESPAÑA PORTUGAL SOCIEDAD CULTURA | | Clasificación: | 909 HISTORIA DEL MUNDO | | Resumen: | This book attempts to show as a whole the Peninsula made up of Spain and Portugal, with the slow unfolding of a pattern of society and an attitude to life still subtly distinct from those north of the Pyrenees. The successive occupation of Roman, Visigoth, and Muslim span between them more than a thousand years. The Peninsula's great contribution to the modern age was the opening up of the New World in the west by Spain, and of new routes to the east by Portugal. Over the last century and a half the history of both peoples provide a case-study in the essential relativity of forms of gobernment. | | Nota de contenido: | Contents.
1. The Settings.
2. Roman Foundations.
3. Visigothic Overlay.
4. Irruption from Africa.
5. The Reconquest.
6. Patterns of Society.
7. The end of the Middle Ages.
8. Literature and the Arts I.
9. Involvement in Europe.
10. The Age of Retribution.
11. Literature and the Arts II.
12. "No more Pyrenees"
13. The Great Experiment.
14. Desillusion.
15. Literature and the Arts III. |
A History of Spain and Portugal: The Penninsula and its peoples, the pattern of their society and civilization [texto impreso] / William C. Atkinson, Autor . - Great Britain : Penguin Books, 1960 . - 382 p. ISSN : L02690 | Etiquetas: | HISTORIA ESPAÑA PORTUGAL SOCIEDAD CULTURA | | Clasificación: | 909 HISTORIA DEL MUNDO | | Resumen: | This book attempts to show as a whole the Peninsula made up of Spain and Portugal, with the slow unfolding of a pattern of society and an attitude to life still subtly distinct from those north of the Pyrenees. The successive occupation of Roman, Visigoth, and Muslim span between them more than a thousand years. The Peninsula's great contribution to the modern age was the opening up of the New World in the west by Spain, and of new routes to the east by Portugal. Over the last century and a half the history of both peoples provide a case-study in the essential relativity of forms of gobernment. | | Nota de contenido: | Contents.
1. The Settings.
2. Roman Foundations.
3. Visigothic Overlay.
4. Irruption from Africa.
5. The Reconquest.
6. Patterns of Society.
7. The end of the Middle Ages.
8. Literature and the Arts I.
9. Involvement in Europe.
10. The Age of Retribution.
11. Literature and the Arts II.
12. "No more Pyrenees"
13. The Great Experiment.
14. Desillusion.
15. Literature and the Arts III. |
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A History of Spain and Portugal: The Penninsula and its peoples, the pattern of their society and civilization / William C. Atkinson