Developing and Managing the Brown University Library Collections
Collection Policies by Subject:   Spanish Early Modern and Modern History

• Library Liaison:
  Patricia_Figueroa@brown.edu
  
  
• Modern European History (Overview)

• Overview of the Collection
  The Library’s collection of Spanish modern history serves the needs of the faculty, visiting professors and scholars, researchers, John Carter Brown (JCB) Library fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, and other users within the Brown University community who are studying Spanish history and cultural studies, and, more broadly, Western European history and cultural studies. JCB fellows and interdisciplinary departments, programs, and centers such as Hispanic Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, the History Department, the Watson Institute for International Relations, and the Department of History of Art and Architecture are the principal users of this collection.

• Specific Collecting Guidelines
  • Language: Primary and secondary materials in Spanish and English language form the core of the collection. Primary materials in Latin, Catalan and Galician languages, as well as secondary materials in French, Italian and German, are acquired selectively.
  • Chronological Span: The periods and themes of Spanish history that are primarily collected are Al-Andalus; the Reconquest; the conversion and expulsion of Sephardic Jews; the “new Christians” or marranos; the Inquisition; the reign of the Catholic Kings and the discovery of the New World; Charles V; Phillip II and the suppression of the Prostestants in the low countries; The Napoleonic War, the government of Joseph Bonaparte, and the subsequent War of Independence; the First and Second Republic; the Spanish Civil War; the republican exile; the post-war years (la posguerra); the Franco regime; the period surrounding the transition to democracy; and Spain's membership in the European Union. General histories of Spain are also collected.
    Note: the medieval history of Spain is collected by the Medieval Studies subject specialist. The Islamic and Shephardic (Sefarad) history of Spain is shared among the Ibero-American, Medieval, Judaic, and Middle Eastern Studies subject specialists. The collection guidelines for Spanish voyages of exploration and religious missions worldwide, as well as the history of Spain’s colonies are described in the collection development policy for Latin American Studies.
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  • Geographical Range: After the unification of the crowns under the reign of the Catholic Kings, Ferdinand and Isabella, the tendency of the collection is national vs. regional, however for major historical events—particularly from the 19th and 20th century—materials focusing on Galicia, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Andalucia, Navarra, Aragon, and Castile are purchased selectively.
  • Types of Material Included: Circulating monographs form the core of the collection, however other materials such as serials, non-circulating monographs, and audiovisual and electronic resources are also collected.
  • Formats: The library acquires materials in all formats, with the exception of 8mm in the case of audiovisual items. The bulk of the collection is print-based (monographs and serials), however microfilm is still purchased for periodical archives, pamphlet collections and pre-twentieth century publications. Materials in electronic formats such as CD-ROM, DVD, DVD-ROM and online access are acquired according to their licensing agreements and their compatibility with the library's system. Audiovisual materials are purchased on video, or, preferably, DVD format. All English-language films purchased for this collection are housed at Media Services in the Sciences Library, while Spanish-language films are housed in the Language Resource Center. Music CDs are for the most part purchased by the Music Librarian and are housed at the Orwig Music Library.
  • Excluded: Introductory general-purpose textbooks whose primary function is instruction are out of the scope of this collection.
  
  
  

• Special Collections
  The John Hay Library holds a number of Spanish History books published in the 16th-18th century. The following titles are a selection from our Special Collections:
  Beuter, Pere Antoni. Cronica generale d'Hispagna, et del regno di Valenza : nella qvale si trattano gli avenimenti, & guerre, che dal diluuio di Noe insino al tempo del re Don Giaime d'Aragona, che acquistò Valenza in Spagna si seguitarono : insieme con l'origine delle città, terre & luoghi piu notabili di quella, & di tutte de nationi, & popoli del mondo : opera ueramente molto curiosa, & diletteuole. Vinegia : G. Giolito de' Ferrari, 1556.

  Mariana, Juan de. Historia general de España. Toledo, P. Rodriguez, 1601.

  Schottus, Andreas. Hispaniae illvstratæ; sev. Rervm. vrbivmq. Hispaniæ, Lvsitaniæ, Æthiopiæ et Indiæ scriptores varii. Partim editi nunc primum, partim aucti atque emendati ... Operâ & studio doctorvm hominvm. Accessit rerum memorabilium & verborum index copiosissimus. Francofvrti, apud C. Marnium, & hæredes Iohannis Aubrij, 1603-08

  Sandoval, Prudencio de. Historia de la vida y hechos del emperador Carlos V. maximo, fortissimo, rey catholico de España, y de las Indias, islas, y tierra firme del mar oceano, &c. Amberes : Por Geronymo Verdussen, 1681.

  González Dávila, Gil. Historia de la vida y hechos del rey don Henrique Tercero de Castilla, inclito en religion y justicia. Madrid, Francisco Martinez, 1638.

  Céspedes y Meneses, Gonzalo. Historia de Don Felipe IIII, rey de las Españas. Barcelona, Por Sebastian de Cormellas, 1634.

  Watson, Robert. The history of the reign of Philip the Second, king of Spain. London: printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1778.

  In 2003, the Library received a donation of c. 650 titles on Spanish late-19th to mid- 20th century history from Prof. Edward Malefakis (Emeritus, Columbia University). The collection circulates and is dispersed in the DP section of the Rockefeller Library.

• Electronic resources
  The Library subscribes to the Bases de Datos del CSIC, a database developed by the Center for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDOC) for the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Spain. The Bases de Datos del CSIC contains three databases that index Spanish journals and conference papers—ISOC, ICYT, IME. ISOC contains seventeen subdatabases in the social sciences and humanities. Users may search ISOC-Historia independently from the other ISOC subdatabases.

  The Library provides full-text access for ten consecutive users to the complete archives of the Spanish national daily, El Pais, founded in 1976. El Pais.es is an excellent resource for those doing research on the post-Franco period.

• Serials
  Current serial subscriptions are very selective for this subject.
  al-Qantara (1984-)

  Anuario de estudios medievales (2002-)

  Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu (1932-)

  Boletín de la Biblioteca de Menéndez y Pelayo (1933-)

  Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia (1877-)

  Other serial titles, now ceased or cancelled, that relevant to this today include:

  Al-Andalus (v.12-v.43 1947-1978)

  Basques (v.1-v.6 1943-1944)

  Bohemia (v.66-v.72 1974-1980)

  Cuadernos de Madrid (V. 1 1939)

  El Mono azul (v. 1-4 1936-1939)

  Nova Galiza (no.1-no.18 5 abr.1937-xuño-xulio 1938)

  Volunteer for liberty (v. 1-2 1937-1938)

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