Born in Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo Barreiros (1919-1992) rose to become a successful entrepreneur and one of Spain's prominent industrialists. This biography recounts Barreiros' origins as a car mechanic, his...
"The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas. In this wide-ranging...
Intending this work as a companion to his textbook Essentials of International Management: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Sage, 2001), Thomas (Simon Frazer U.) groups his collection of 18 readings and 21 case studies around the same themes as the earlier...
Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all...
First serious examination of the curious demise of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler that also investigates an extraordinary web of secret deals and international intrigue.