Spain: A History. Oxford University Press, USA, $45 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-19-820619-4. Potent yet palatable, this history of Spain is remarkably seamless--especially considering that it traces the ...

When Spain became a republic in 1931, it granted Catalonia semi-autonomous status. But during the Spanish Civil War, Catalonia backed the losing side, and in its aftermath the fascist general ...

The history of how the olive tree made it there and how it's in Andalucia, which is the south, which was, I don't know, a lot of people don't even know this, but Spain was ruled by the Moors for ...