Books of the month

A monthly selection of new titles from the publishers we represent.

Organizing for Independence

Organizing for Independence explores the question of how the referendum crisis as a threat and opportunity transformed secessionist protest and its organizational basis.

ISBN 9789048561094

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Multicultural Mankind

How is Portuguese archaeological cultural Heritage reflected today as traces of its colonial expansion through the World?

ISBN 9781803278773

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Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain

By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought.

ISBN 9781837651153

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The Spanish Civil War in the British and French Press

This book examines coverage of the Spanish Civil War by the leading French and British newspapers, and agencies like Havas and Reuters. Their foundational reporting created a bedrock of ‘shared news’, which reverberated in places as geographically and ideologically remote as Moscow or Berlin.

ISBN 9781835534069

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The Soul of the Nation

Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain but the complexity of the controversial and sometimes violent relationships between Catholic values and modern political regimes continue to ride a precarious line of spiritual accommodation versus public policy.

ISBN 9781805395973

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The Late Postcolonial Condition

This analysis of fictional narratives from Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe establishes a much-needed critical reassessment of the theoretical framework of postcolonial studies used to trace the development of key tropes within these national literary systems, including nation building, the role of violence and economic exploitation in the postcolonial age.

ISBN 9781787074507

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