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Title: Spain: The Root and the Flower: An Interpretation of Spain and the Spanish People by John Armstrong Crow ISBN: 0-520-05133-5 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: a very detrimental BOOK!!
Comment: A very detrimental book. Amazingly wrong point of view.
To say that "the Spaniards spring from an Afro-Semitic race" is just a wrong start.
To say that the Arabs were in Spain for about 800 years...is not to have any idea about the history of Spain!!. In reality, the Iberians could have been today's Basques, incoming from the Georgia plateau, as of today no one is certain about the origins of the Iberians. The Basque were never touch by the conquest of the Arabs, nor the Galicians, nor the Cantabrians. In Catatonia the Arabs were expel by the Franks by the year 977 (that is 220 years after their incursion in this region). Valencia was liberated by 1248. Only in Granada did the Arabs lived for around 800 years (most of them of Syrian descent, is that north Africa?) . Spain is a country of different ethnicity's, some with direct Celtic ancestry like the Asturs, Galicians and Cantabrians, some like the Catalans with Frankish descendants, and some, like Extremadura or Andalucia from Mediterranean past, and still some like the Basque, with an uncertain past, but a unique history, never subdue neither by Visigoths, nor Romans, nor Arabs.
I have a PHD from the University of Salamanca, and I could not disagree more with John A Crow. I found many inaccuracies in this book. If you would like to learn about the true history of Spain, or just learn about the life and culture of Spain be aware of this issue. Crow writes out of his personal opinion...A very dangerous thing to due. I could write a book about the US base in my opinion and I'm sure I would offend many people, and at the same time I would probably be inaccurate. Crow refuses facts over his own ideas. I could give you a list the inaccuracies (many of them!!) but I have nor space nor time.
Take a trip to Spain (south, north, east and west so as to appreciate the differences of the people and the culture and the history) and read some good books about the history of Medieval Spain (Joseph F. O'Callahan, B. Netanyahu, are good books), and learn the true history of this unique land.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Dude in Los Angeles
Comment: As an undergraduate at Rutgers College, Rutgers University (1987), I was a Henry Rutgers Honors scholar and wrote a thesis entitled "Linguistic Conflict in Spain." This book was invaluable to me in my research to bridge pre-Civil War Spain and democracy's foothold in this Iberian constitutional monarchy post-Franco. It's excellent. Any Hispanophile needs this in their bibliotheque.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good coverage of cultural history of Spain from Rome to '80
Comment: Well researched and readable account of Crow's 30 year love affair with Spain and it's not always lovely history. His even handed assessment of the Spanish Civil War and it's uneasy legacy in modern Spain reads makes the events unroll like a Greek tragedy.
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Title: The New Spaniards (Penguin Politics and Current Affairs) by John Hooper ISBN: 0140131914 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Story of Spain by Mark Williams ISBN: 8489954135 Publisher: Santana Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Iberia by James A. Michener ISBN: 0449207331 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 October, 1984 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Arts in Spain (The World of Art) by John F. Moffitt ISBN: 0500203156 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Spain: A History by Raymond Carr ISBN: 0192802364 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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