Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balearic Islands (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Catalonia & the Balearic Isles
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balearic Islands (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balearic Islands (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Catalonia & the Balearic Islands: an historical and desciptive account
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
History of Spain is an exciting account of Albert Frederick Calvert's travels through Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona in 1917. Calvert was an English author, engineer and explorer. History of Spain is one of his 36 books on Africa and Spain.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
History of Spain is an exciting account of Albert Frederick Calvert's travels through Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona in 1917. Calvert was an English author, engineer and explorer. History of Spain is one of his 36 books on Africa and Spain.
Madrid: an historical description and handbook of the Spanish capital
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Madrid is but a nursling among the cities of Spain. Marius Fulvius laid siege to Toledo nearly two centuries before the birth of Christ, and it is not until a thousand years later that we find the first historical mention of Madrid. Despite the flattering and dignified official epithets that have been bestowed upon it, Madrid possesses many natural features which militate against its popularity as a residential center; but, despite its isolated and elevated position and the treacherousness of its climate, the city has not deserved the strictures that have been passed upon it by captious and prejudiced critics. For Madrid is a city of broad thoroughfares, magnificent public buildings, and handsome houses; and, since it has been rescued from its geographical remoteness by being made the center of the Spanish railway system, it has become one of the most accessible and prosperous capitals of Europe. In devoting a book to a historical and descriptive account of Madrid, the author is not only fulfilling a duty which could not be neglected in any serious attempt to make this Spanish Series useful and comprehensive but he is also inspired with a hope of being able to dissipate many of the erroneous and defamatory impressions that are current with regard to the Spanish capital. He has approached the task from the standpoint of a resident writing for visitors to the city. The Spanish metropolis is modern; it is imbued with the principles of modern progress; and while one never ceases to rejoice in the unfaltering, unchanging adherence to an immemorial past, characteristic of Toledo, one may feel an interest, equally keen and appreciative, in the spirit of new Spain which is to be found in Madrid.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Madrid is but a nursling among the cities of Spain. Marius Fulvius laid siege to Toledo nearly two centuries before the birth of Christ, and it is not until a thousand years later that we find the first historical mention of Madrid. Despite the flattering and dignified official epithets that have been bestowed upon it, Madrid possesses many natural features which militate against its popularity as a residential center; but, despite its isolated and elevated position and the treacherousness of its climate, the city has not deserved the strictures that have been passed upon it by captious and prejudiced critics. For Madrid is a city of broad thoroughfares, magnificent public buildings, and handsome houses; and, since it has been rescued from its geographical remoteness by being made the center of the Spanish railway system, it has become one of the most accessible and prosperous capitals of Europe. In devoting a book to a historical and descriptive account of Madrid, the author is not only fulfilling a duty which could not be neglected in any serious attempt to make this Spanish Series useful and comprehensive but he is also inspired with a hope of being able to dissipate many of the erroneous and defamatory impressions that are current with regard to the Spanish capital. He has approached the task from the standpoint of a resident writing for visitors to the city. The Spanish metropolis is modern; it is imbued with the principles of modern progress; and while one never ceases to rejoice in the unfaltering, unchanging adherence to an immemorial past, characteristic of Toledo, one may feel an interest, equally keen and appreciative, in the spirit of new Spain which is to be found in Madrid.
Velazquez
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Leon, Burgos and Salamanca
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Spain
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Sculpture in Spain
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Poor Folk in Spain
Author: Jan Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession
Author: Kirsty Hooper
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789627265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
What did the Edwardians know about Spain, and what was that knowledge worth? The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession draws on a vast store of largely unstudied primary source material to investigate Spain’s place in the turn-of-the-century British popular imagination. Set against a background of unprecedented emotional, economic and industrial investment in Spain, the book traces the extraordinary transformation that took place in British knowledge about the country and its diverse regions, languages and cultures between the tercentenary of the Spanish Armada in 1888 and the outbreak of World War I twenty-six years later. This empirically-grounded cultural and material history reveals how, for almost three decades, Anglo-Spanish connections, their history and culture were more visible, more colourfully represented, and more enthusiastically discussed in Britain’s newspapers, concert halls, council meetings and schoolrooms, than ever before. It shows how the expansion of education, travel, and publishing created unprecedented opportunities for ordinary British people not only to visit the country, but to see the work of Spanish and Spanish-inspired artists and performers in British galleries, theatres and exhibitions. It explores the work of novelists, travel writers, journalists, scholars, artists and performers to argue that the Edwardian knowledge of Spain was more extensive, more complex and more diverse than we have imagined.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789627265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
What did the Edwardians know about Spain, and what was that knowledge worth? The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession draws on a vast store of largely unstudied primary source material to investigate Spain’s place in the turn-of-the-century British popular imagination. Set against a background of unprecedented emotional, economic and industrial investment in Spain, the book traces the extraordinary transformation that took place in British knowledge about the country and its diverse regions, languages and cultures between the tercentenary of the Spanish Armada in 1888 and the outbreak of World War I twenty-six years later. This empirically-grounded cultural and material history reveals how, for almost three decades, Anglo-Spanish connections, their history and culture were more visible, more colourfully represented, and more enthusiastically discussed in Britain’s newspapers, concert halls, council meetings and schoolrooms, than ever before. It shows how the expansion of education, travel, and publishing created unprecedented opportunities for ordinary British people not only to visit the country, but to see the work of Spanish and Spanish-inspired artists and performers in British galleries, theatres and exhibitions. It explores the work of novelists, travel writers, journalists, scholars, artists and performers to argue that the Edwardian knowledge of Spain was more extensive, more complex and more diverse than we have imagined.
Goya
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description