Hispanic Studies / Hispanic History

Quixotic Quests explores the publication of the special 1946 edition of Don Quixote illustrated by Salvador Dalí, analysing the artist’s didactic compositions, revealing the book’s material history, and tracing the mid-century reception of both.

Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain examines the evolution of domestic space through an analysis of the media-driven concept of comfort.

Mann examines how the financial patronage of newly empowered local rulers allowed Romanesque architecture and sculptural decoration to significantly redefine the cultural identities of those who lived in the frontier kingdoms of Christian Spain.

Taking readers back to the Spanish Habsburg court, this critical edition and translation of Arte de cocina presents a nuanced understanding of what foods were prepared and consumed during a monumental time in Spain’s culinary history.

The Art of Witnessing offers a compelling new framework for understanding Francisco de Goya's famous print series, The Disasters of War.

Bilingual Legacies examines the role of father figures in shaping several major authors’ gender and linguistic consciousness in Spain after Franco’s dictatorship.

Ellis provides a groundbreaking expansion of the geographical and cultural contours of Hispanism that bridges the fields of European, Latin American, and Asian Studies.

This collection of essays provides a panoramic view of Spanish gastronomy and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present.

The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945 addresses the history and memory of the Spanish volunteers that served alongside the German army in the invasion of Russia.

Barcelona, City of Margins considers the impact of narrative and photography in the construction of urban space and social movements in Francoist Spain.

The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world.

The Sword of Luchana is the first full-length biography of Baldomero Espartero, the most important figure in Spain’s modern history.

Chocolate traces representations of chocolate in Spanish literature and historical documents, providing a fascinating and worldly narrative about one of the most beloved foods of all time.

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.

This important collection of Spanish fascist writing makes it possible for the first time to fully incorporate Spain into the global history of fascism.

Topographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing – essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs – represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s.