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Author: Julie Marfany ISBN: 9781409444657 Format: HB Extent: 230 pp. Price: £65 Publication: August 2012 Publisher: Ashgate

This monograph makes a fresh contribution to a longstanding but far from exhausted debate concerning the transition to capitalism in Europe. The work investigates key aspects of this transformation: the changes on the land, the origins of the industrial revolution, the modern rise of population and the growth of markets. It does so from a new perspective, however, by focusing on an area of southern Europe, Catalonia. Catalonia’s interest as an area for study lies in its precocity within a southern European context, as one of the few regions on the European periphery to industrialise in comparable ways and at the same time as areas of northern Europe. Population growth was similarly rapid. The approach taken by this work is a micro-study of one community, Igualada, an important proto-industrial centre but also situated within the viticultural region. It grew rapidly over the eighteenth century from around 1,700 inhabitants in 1717 to 4,900 in 1787 and around 7,700 by 1830. Only at the micro-level is it feasible for an individual study to reconstruct networks of relationships and patterns of decision-making at the household level. At the core of the book, therefore, is a family reconstitution of 8,700 families, supplemented by a wide body of additional sources, such as landholding contracts, tax records, manorial surveys, inventories, marriage contracts and letters.

Author: Pedro Cardim, José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez et al. ISBN: 9781845195441 Format: HB Extent: 320 pp. Price: £65 Publication: August 2012 Publisher: Sussex Academic Press

Having succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early 16th century Spain and Portugal became the first imperial powers on a worldwide scale. Between 1580 and 1640, when these two entities were united, they achieved an almost global hegemony, constituting the largest political force in Europe and abroad. Although they lost their political primacy in the seventeenth century, both monarchies survived and were able to enjoy a relative success until the early 19th century. The aim of this collection is to answer the question how and why their cultural and political legacies persist to date. The Editors and Contributors discard the portrayal of the Iberian monarchies as the accumulation of many bilateral relations arranged in a radial pattern, arguing that these political entities were polycentric, that is to say, they allowed for the existence of many different centres which interacted and thus participated in the making of empire. The resulting political structure was complex and unstable, albeit with a general adhesion to a discourse of loyalty to King and religion.

Editor: Antón M Pazos (CSIC) ISBN: 9781409447597 Format: HB Extent: 222 pp. Price: £60 Publication: October 2012 Publisher: Ashgate

The objective of this book is to analyse the historical relationships between the phenomenon of Christian pilgrimage and political power within Europe, from the Middle Ages up to the present day. A major focus is on the pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela, an important Christian sanctuary from the time of the discovery of the tomb of the apostle St James in the 9th century. Topics covered include the Way of St James as seen through medieval Muslim sources, the political reading of the apostolic cult as an ideological instrument of the propaganda of the Asturian monarchy, Santa Maria de Roncesvalles as an example of political involvement in the assistance of the Jacobean pilgrims, the Order of St John as protector of the medieval pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, or the nationalist use of the pilgrimages as an element of national unification and internal cohesion during the Spanish Civil War.

Editor: Ian Inkster ISBN: 9781441152794 Format: HB Extent: 272 pp. Price: £90 Publication: November 2012 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

The complex linkages between technological change and its knowledge base have never been settled by historians. Every new theory is perplexed by every new piece of empirical research. This is the focus for the two special collections that make up History of Technology, Volume 31. Both collections centre on the most famous and best documented of cases, that of Europe prior to and after the Industrial Revolution. How did useful and reliable knowledge circulate and upset the cultural or intellectual world of those who were concerned with technology in some form? Who contended for knowledge and what price did they pay?

Focusing on Britain, France, Italy, and Spain, the articles of this volume uncover several answers as well as newer issues.

Editor: William Bortrick ISBN: 9780850110838 Format: HB Extent: 600 pp. Price: £125 Publication: April 2012 Distributor: Boydell & Brewer

A comprehensive dictionary of reigning and non-reigning royal Families in Europe – the definitive guide to royal genealogy.

Editors: Jacqueline Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski ISBN: 978-0-85745-325-9 Format: HB Extent: 212 pp. Price: £37.50 Publication: May 2012 Publisher: Berghahn Books

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education, and adult-child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan, and Ethiopia. Attention is focused on the child’s perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in child-adult relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning, and parenting in a changing world.

Editors: Miguel Angel del Arco and Alejandro Quiroga ISBN: 978 1 4411 8176 3 Format: PB Extent: 240 pp. Price: £19,99 Publication: July 2012 Publisher: Continuum

Right-Wing Spain in the Civil War Era explores the lives of the leading Spanish conservatives in the turbulent period 1914-1945. The volume is a collection of biographies of the most important figures of the Spanish Right during the last years of the Restoration (1914-1923), the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1930), the Second Republic (1931-1936), the Civil War (1936-39) and the early years of the Franco regime (1939-45).

This book brings together a number of leading historians of twentieth-century Spain. By adopting a biographical approach, the volume aims at providing a new insight of the origins, development and aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Contrary to the traditional view, Right-Wing Spain in the Civil War Era shows a diverse and fragmented Spanish right which, far from being isolated, was profoundly influenced by German Nazism, Italian Fascism and French Traditionalism.

Author: Darren Paffey ISBN: 9781441187406 Format: HB Extent: 224 pp. Price: £75 Publication: September 2012 Publisher: Continuum Books

A global language, such as Spanish, is by nature more widely used outside of the nation state in question than in it.

This book examines how language ideologies are manifested in newspaper media. Using the Spanish press as a case study it considers how media discourse both from and about the Real Academia Española constitutes a set of ‘language ideological debates’ in which the institution represents a vision of what the Spanish language is and what it should be like.

Paffey adopts a Critical Discourse Analysis approach to a large corpus of texts from Spain’s best-selling daily newspapers, El País and ABC. More generally, the book sheds light on how institutions produce and maintain visions of ‘standard language’ in the contemporary context.

Editor: John Kennedy ISBN: 978 0 95321 427 3 Format: HB Extent: 1000 pp. Price: £60 Publication: 2012 Distributor: Boydell & Brewer

The 2012 edition follows the successful format of previous editions withfamilies listed by rank in their corresponding parts. Births, marriagesand deaths of all living members of the Gotha have been updated and it remains the only publication to list all the members of all the imperial, royal, princely and ducal houses and the counts of the Holy Roman Empire. Even family disputes are handled by the careful noting of competing claims.

This new edition also sees a full list of the households of the courts of Europe, diplomatic listings and a full entry for the Holy See.The most comprehensive listing of its kind, with an impeccable pedigree, the book remains an essential reference for genealogists, libraries and scholars. There is and never has been a comparable source, a book once described as “the second most important ever published”.

Author: Andrew Dowling ISBN:  9781845195304 Format: HB Extent: 272 pp. Price: £60 Publication: April 2012 Publisher: Sussex Academic Press

This book studies the transformation of the Catalan nation in socio-economic, political and historical terms, and offers an innovative interpretation of the determinants of its nationalist mobilization. With Franco’s and Spanish nationalism’s victory in 1939 and the consolidation of a long-lasting dictatorship, it appeared certain that the Catalan national movement would be crushed. Yet, this did not happen and Catalan nationalism and identity re-emerged at the end of Franco’s dictatorship in 1975 more firmly rooted than ever. The core of this book traces Francoist repression and the nationalist response to it, demonstrating how new political actors reconfigured Catalan nationalism over the course of the Franco regime. Catalonia became the most successful state-less nationalism of Western Europe. The Themes treated in this book – Franco’s Spain, nationalism, anarchism, Catholicism, communism and the Catalan role in Spain’s transition to democracy – make this an essential point of reference for students and researchers in hispanic studies.