Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country. By Michael Reid. Yale University Press; 320 pages; $30 and £18.99. T HE PAST 15 years have been tumultuous for many European countries ...

Modern Spain has an uneasy relationship with its history because of chapters such as the Inquisition and the colonization of the Americas, said Jesús Carrobles, head of Toledo’s Royal Academy ...

Francisco Franco died, an event which propelled Spain into democracy and modernity. There are plenty of myths about what the ...

España: A Brief History of Spain Giles Tremlett. Bloomsbury, $35 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63973-057-5 ...

Potent yet palatable, this history of Spain is remarkably seamless--especially considering that it traces the development of a fractious society and that it is the creation of nine collaborating ...