Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country. By Michael Reid. Yale University Press; 320 pages; $30 and £18.99 In so doing, he tackles a host of issues, ranging from immigration ...

Through exploration and conquest, Spain became a world power in the 16th Century, and maintained a vast overseas empire until the 19th Century. Its modern history was marked by the bitter civil ...

Two new books, Nigel Townson’s Penguin History of Modern Spain and Paul Preston’s Architects of Terror, do a fine job of narrating Spain’s development since 1898 and reminding us of the ...

This important work is not a systematic history of modern Spain, but a series of related chapters containing a wealth of material on the country's political and economic evolution since the Napoleonic ...

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 ...

Spoken by approximately 28 percent of modern Basques ... which helped determine the course of Basque history. Basques lived in northern Spain when the Romans invaded the area in 196 B.C., for ...