Product Description: From 1900 to 1924 Spain experienced a stage of vigorous academic freedom and unfettered scientific inquiry that strikingly contrasted with the repressive atmosphere of the periods before and after. Thomas Glick explores this "recovery of science" by focusing on the national discussion provoked by Einstein's trip to Spain in 1923...read more

Product Description: Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents fascinating observations about Darwin and his ideas from such notable figures as P...read more

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Product Description: Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics―five clerics and one layman―tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species...read more

The Description for this book, Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages: Comparative Perspectives on Social and Cultural Formation, will be forthcoming.

Product Description: I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.' At the time, it was apparent that the topic had attracted interest only as regarded the "mainstream" science countries of Western Europe, plus the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed for use in a broad range of courses in the humanities, Darwin's theory is laid out in a concise general Introduction and followed up in short chapter introductions. Each chapter concludes with an excerpt from Darwin's correspondence, commenting on the work in question, and its significance, impact, and reception...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These essays describe the diffusion of hydraulic institutions and techniques from the Islamic world into medieval Spain and, then, on to the Canaries and to America. Professor Glick's concern is both with technical aspects of water use, such as mills and flow measurement, and with the social basis of the technology; and it is this latter aspect that he would see as the key to success; Given the critical importance of water for agriculture, and also often competing urban and industrial uses, means to ensure equitable distribution and the management of disputes were essential...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This analysis of early Spanish history draws on a wide range of sources, archaeological as well as written. Thomas F. Glick explores the history of Spain from the Roman province, through the Visigothic and Arab Conquests, to the Christian Reconquest and reorganization of society in the 13th century...read more

Looks at the golden age produced by the mingling of the three cultures in medieval Spain and shows examples of arts and crafts

A volume of authoritative essays on the middle ages in Spain profiles a nearly eight-hundred year period during which Jewish, Muslim, and Christian inhabitants coexisted and intermingled with varying degrees of animosity, in an anthology that reveals how Spanish art, architecture, and culture was significantly influenced by the period's convergence of traditions. Reissue.

Product Description: Of the communal institutions elaborated by medieval Spaniards, the most significant and longest-lived were the irrigation communities which the Muslims had established centuries earlier in the Valencian region. The objective of these remarkably democratic communities was justice and equity in water distribution; and the irrigators succeeded in combining traditional rules with consensual authority to maintain their systems with a minimum of conflict...read more