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Settlements in North America: Spain, France, England and Holland

Spain in the mid-1500s, privately owned French ships - pirates in the eyes of the Spanish - attacked Spanish ships and ports in th...

United States and War with Spain

to grant Cuba religious and civil rights, without removing Cuba from Spains control (Volume I of The Great Republic by the Master ...

Spain, the Basque Region, and Theories of Nationalism

Michael Hechters theory of what he calls "internal colonialism." He defines it as a sort of colonialism "practised by the center a...

Questions on the Crusades

Cairo. Also, the recent deaths meant that there was a power vacuum and no decisive leadership anywhere. Therefore, Muslim forces n...

Goya/Executions of the Third of May, 1808

people who were followers of the European Enlightenment who supported the idea of a more "liberal, constitutional government."v Go...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

King Philip II of Spain

the Spanish Inquisition were used to eliminate resistance to Philips policy of centralizing power under an absolute monarchy" (Phi...

North America: Exploration And Colonization

twenty-six years after Cabots exploration was a small but critically important contribution, in that it is considered "the foundat...

Interactions Between the Franciscan Missionaries and the Maya

In five pages this paper examines how these groups interacted and how the missionaries were motivated by both the prospect of mone...

Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Hernan Cortes

In seven pages the writings of these two men are contrasted and compared with Castillo's The Conquest of New Spain and Cortes' Let...

Spanish Colonies and Trade

prevent bankruptcy. Much of the taxes were not reaching the royal treasury (Lea 1898). If the taxes within their own country could...

Democratic Spanish King Juan Carlos

In eleven pages this research paper examines how Francisco Franco's dictatorial form of government was replaced in Spain by King J...

Limited-Term Employment Contracts : Spain

pay during maternity leave (European industrial relations observatory on-line, 1999). Every member of the European Union is subje...

Spain And America

its landmarks Mt. McKinley and Death Valley - are the highest and lowest points on the continent, respectively (CIA, 2008a). Amer...

Spain

climate for early-cultivation) have promoted the introduction of organic agriculture, but until now there was no home market with ...

Country Comparison: Spain And The United States

spoken in the United States. At a size approximately double that of the state of Oregon, Spains population currently stands as ju...

Spanish Connection Between George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway

much of his writings, including The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Orwell, a self-described socialist, was al...

Aztec Conquest by Spain

goes without saying that many thousands of peoples lives were spared once the Aztec nation was forced to discontinue this ceremony...

Commercial Appraisal of Spain

at the end of February 2002 the inflation rate was 3.1%, for 2001 it was 2.7% and for 2000 it was 3.4% (CIA, 2002, FT, 2002). I...

Islamic History in Spain

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

Holland, Surrounding Countries, and Seventeenth Century Art

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

Post Franco Spain

In five pages this paper considers Spain after the 1975 death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco in terms of socioeconomic, gover...

Isabel of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon

In seven pages fifteenth century Spain is considered within the context of Ferdinand and Isabel's reign and the unification which ...

Spain and the Impact of the Spanish-American War

Spain erupted in Cuba in 1895, America was not directly involved but they felt a protective need to send reinforcements after the ...

Muslim Capture of Spain

In fifteen pages this paper examines the Moor invasion of Spain and the conversion to Islam in the region that resulted. Eight so...

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

In eight pages this paper examines the characterization of Edward Rochester in a comparison between him and the conquistadors of S...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

the Holy Roman Emperor from 1519-1558. He was born to King Philip I of Castile in February 1500 and although he was born in Ghent,...

Venezuela Independence and the Ideals of Francisco de Miranda

Both the similarities and the differences in conditions in the new United States and in Venezuela fascinated Miranda. He notes in...

How Contemporaries Depicted Hernan Cortes and Christopher Columbus

The first impression that we get is that Cortes is a determined and logical man. He attempts this journey, and has to overcome...

Spain and Introduction of Scooters

In ten pages this paper examines the introduction of scooters to Spain in a discussion of conditions and concerns that need to be ...