1st Edition

Spanish Culture and Society The Essential Glossary

By Barry Jordan Copyright 2002

    This glossary offers an exciting introduction to the diversity and richness of Spanish culture and society and a route-map to further study. Designed specifically with undergraduates in mind, it contains around 450 concise alphabetically arranged and accessible explanations of the key words, events, figures and concepts in Spain since 1939.

    Architecture Cinema Cultural life Education Fashion and design Language and nationhood Leisure, consumption, food Literature Media and communications Music & dance Political life Religion Social issues Sport Trade, commerce, industry Visual and performing arts Writers and intellectuals.

    Biography

    Barry Jordan is Professor of European Cinema and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.