Spain in the Nineteenth Century - Tapa blanda

Elizabeth Latimer’s Spain in the Nineteenth Century is a comprehensive examination of Spain throughout the 1800s, from the Napoleonic Era to the dawn of World War I. As she wrote in her preface: “There are many excellent books, both of history and travel, which tell us about Spain in the days of her glory,—about Ferdinand and Isabella, the expulsion of the Moors, the Peninsular War, the Alhambra, Bull-fights, and the Cathedrals; but there seems to be nowhere a continuous history of the period about which I have been writing. I have had to dig out my facts, one by one, from contemporary sources; or, to use a more feminine simile, I have drawn my threads out of a tangled skein. I trust my readers will not find the story too involved to be interesting. It has many picturesque peaks, but, like hills in Navarre and the Basque country, it has between these peaks rugged paths, dense thickets, and miry morasses. I have done my best; some one, no doubt, hereafter will do better. Meantime I offer my readers what I do not think they can at present find elsewhere without much patient research and literary labor.”