Michael T. Newton and Peter J. Donaghy, Institutions of Modern Spain: A Political and Economic Guide, new expanded, rev., and updated ed. (1997), is an essential overview of political, economic, and institutional life in modern Spain. Peter J. Donaghy and Michael T. Newton, Spain: A Guide to Political and Economic Institutions (1987), offers a superb description of the institutions of democratic Spain. Paul Heywood, The Government and Politics of Spain (1995), presents a historical discussion of the modernization of the Spanish state. Thomas D. Lancaster and Gary Prevost (eds.), Politics and Change in Spain (1985), is a collection of essays on aspects of post-1975 Spain. Frances Lannon, Privilege, Persecution, and Prophecy: The Catholic Church in Spain, 1875–1975 (1987), provides a historical review of religion and church-state relations. Cultural life
Richard E. Chandler and Kessel Schwartz, A New History of Spanish Literature, rev. ed. (1991), surveys the history of Spanish literature through the 1980s. Bradley Smith, Spain: A History in Art (1966, reissued 1971), covers the period up to 1930. John F. Moffitt, The Arts in Spain (1999), offers a balanced overview of the art history of Spain, with an emphasis on Spanish singularity and Spanish responses to international art trends. Emma Dent Coad, Spanish Design and Architecture (1990), covers fashion, interior and graphic design, and furniture, as well as architecture. Gilbert Chase, The Music of Spain, 2nd rev. ed. (1959), is a survey. J.M. Caparrós Lera and Rafael de España, The Spanish Cinema: An Historical Approach (1987), is a brief introduction that goes up to 1975. J.M. Caparrós Lera, Historia crítica del cine españoclass="underline" desde 1897 hasta hoy (1999), offers a more comprehensive history of Spanish film. Adrian Shubert Vicente Rodriguez History Pre-Roman Spain
A general book, richly illustrated, is Richard J. Harrison, Spain at the Dawn of History: Iberians, Phoenicians, and Greeks (1988). Arturo Ruiz and Manuel Molinos, The Archaeology of the Iberians (1998; originally published in Spanish, 1993), is a study of the prehistoric archaeology of Spain. Antonio Beltrán, Rock Art of the Spanish Levant, trans. from Italian (1982), gives an account of Mesolithic rock art. Richard John Harrison Roman Spain
Works on this period include C.H.V. Sutherland, The Romans in Spain, 217 B.C.–A.D. 117 (1939, reprinted 1982); S.J. Keay, Roman Spain (1988); Leonard A. Curchin, Roman Spain: Conquest and Assimilation (1991, reissued 1995); J.S. Richardson, The Romans in Spain (1996, reissued 1998); and A.T. Fear, Rome and Baetica: Urbanization in Southern Spain, c. 50 BC–AD 150 (1996). John S. Richardson Adrian Shubert Visigothic Spain
E.A. Thompson, The Goths in Spain (1969); Kenneth Baxter Wolf (trans. and ed.), Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain, 2nd ed., trans. from Latin (1999); and the collection of essays in Edward James (ed.), Visigothic Spain: New Approaches (1980), are informative studies of the Visigothic period. Christian Spain from the Muslim invasion to 1479
Joseph F. O’Callaghan, A History of Medieval Spain (1975, reissued 1983), is the standard survey in English. Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain: Unity and Diversity, 400–1000, 2nd ed. (1995); and Angus MacKay, Spain in the Middle Ages: From Frontier to Empire, 1000–1500 (1977, reissued 1989), cover the medieval period. J.N. Hillgarth, The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250–1516, 2 vol. (1976–78), studies the late Middle Ages in greater detail. Derek W. Lomax, The Reconquest of Spain (1978), focuses primarily on military history. A modern work on the Cid is Richard Fletcher, The Quest for El Cid (1989, reissued 1991). Also important are Thomas F. Glick, From Muslim Fortress to Christian Castle: Social and Cultural Change in Medieval Spain (1995); James F. Powers, A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000–1284 (1987); and Heath Dillard, Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian Town Society, 1100–1300 (1984, reissued 1989). Robert Ignatius Burns, The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Reconstruction on a Thirteenth-Century Frontier, 2 vol. (1967), Islam Under the Crusaders: Colonial Survival in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Valencia (1973), and Medieval Colonialism: Postcrusade Exploitation of Islamic Valencia (1975); and the excellent Mark D. Meyerson, The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabeclass="underline" Between Coexistence and Crusade (1991), all deal with the settlement of Valencia and the fate of the Muslims who remained behind after the Christian reconquest. David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (1996, reprinted with corrections, 1998), is an important discussion of relations among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval Europe. Mark D. Meyerson, A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain (2004), is an important recent study of Jews in late medieval Spain. Muslim Spain
Valuable works include Hugh Kennedy, Muslim Spain and Portugaclass="underline" A Political History of Al-Andalus (1996); Thomas F. Glick, Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages (1979); Olivia Remie Constable, Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900–1500 (1994, reissued 1996); Richard Fletcher, Moorish Spain (1992, reissued 1998); and L.P. Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 (1990, reissued 1992). United Spain under the Catholic Monarchs and the Habsburgs
J.H. Elliott, Imperial Spain, 1469–1716 (1963, reissued 1977), is the best single work covering this period. Henry Kamen, Spain, 1469–1714: A Society of Conflict, 2nd ed. (1991), is a short introduction. Stephen Haliczer, The Comuneros of Castile: The Forging of a Revolution, 1475–1521 (1981), is an important corrective to the traditional overvaluation of the Catholic Monarchs. Recent work on the Inquisition includes Norman Roth, Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1995); Angel Alcalá (ed.), The Spanish Inquisition and the Inquisitorial Mind (1987; originally published in Spanish, 1984); Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: An Historical Revision (1997); B. Netanyahu, The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain (1995); and Mary E. Giles (ed.), Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World (1999).