Crónica del rey don Rodrigo

Med George Orwell og Virginia Wolf som forbilleder, og med ingredienser fra såvel journalistiske som litterære traditioner forsøger forfatteren at forholde sig til den spanske og vesteuropæiske afmatning

Based upon a 1995 earlier work with the same title, it provides a succinct panorma of the diversity of the Automous Regions of Spain as constituent parts of today's Spain. Includes information on geographical, historical, political, sociopolitical, and population distribution topics. Includes a Spanish-language glossary of terms.

A popular account of the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. Ch. 13 (pp. 247-265), "Los Reyes Católicos y la Inquisición: Judíos y moriscos", deals with the establishment of the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. Asserts that the Catholic Kings' abandonment of their protective policy toward the Jews in 1487 was motivated by religious and political considerations, not by an antisemitic attitude in the modern sense of the term. The decree of expulsion was intended to provoke the conversion of the Jews, not their mass emigration.

Descripción de la realidad socio-política, cultural y religiosa de la España de los años 50-60 a través de la experiencia del soldado Sebastián Villegas en su servicio militar.