What is the history of Barcelona Spain?

Recommend us stuff to read in Spain, about Spain.

  • tau_ceti and I are leaving for a vacation in Spain this week, hitting Madrid/Basque Country/Barcelona. We're looking for recommendations of stuff to read on our Kindles about the history, culture, geology, etc of regions we might be driving through. Ideas? For instance, if Bill Bryson wrote a book called A Short History of Nearly Everything in Northern Spain, we'd want that.

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    george orwell has an excellent memoir about his time in catalonia during the spanish civil war, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156421178/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/.

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140298517/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ also, stop in Hondarribia for some pintxos if you get the chance

melissasaurus

Ghosts of Spain - for sure!

Kat_Dubs

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0299165647/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ by Stanley Payne is probably the best book on the Spanish Civil War, its roots and its effects out there. It's a long one, but reads really well. Seconding Homage to Catalonia.

General Malaise

The Cadogan guides are very good; far more in-depth and well written than typical guidebooks. The same publisher has a number of http://www.interlinkbooks.com/index.php?osCsid=70ac00a8c3e5f46829e6a57de5193df1&countries_id=195&osCsid=70ac00a8c3e5f46829e6a57de5193df1 that should serve your purposes including Frontline Madrid: Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War and A Traveller's Companion to Madrid.

Mr.Know-it-some

Beaten to "The Basque History of the World"! Oh well, I would also like to recommend Kurlansky's book http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140275010/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/, since cod fishing is so important to the Basque region.

chainsofreedom

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0067AHWTO/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ by Robert Hughes--old enough now to be called a classic, and beautifully written.

emilypdx

The Sun Also Rises about Pamplona/Iruna in Basque region

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