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Europe

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  • Czech Republic
     

    • Prague: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Paul Wilson, Ed.,
      Whereabouts Press, 1995

    • From Da to Yes: Understanding the East Europeans, Yale Richmond,
             Intercultural Press, 1995
       

  • France
     

    • Au Contraire! Figuring Out the French, Gilles Asselin & Ruth Mastron
              Intercultural Press, 2001
    • France Since 1945, by Robert Gildea, Oxford University Press

     

  • Germany
     
    • These Strange German Ways, Susan Stern, Atlantic-Brücke1994
    • Three Men on the Bummel, by Jerome K. Jerome, 1st World Library

     

  • Great Britain
  • Watching the English:  The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, by Kate Fox, Hodder & Stoughton
  • Greece
     
    • A Traveler's Literary Companion , Artemis Leontis, Ed.
      Whereabouts Press, 1997
    • Exploring the Greek Mosaic: A Guide to Intercultural Communication in Greece,
      Benjamin J. Broome, Intercultural Press, 1996
       
  • Italy
     
    • Italy: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Lawrence Venuti, Ed., Whereabouts Press, 2003
    • The Italians:  A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals, by Luigi Barzini, Touchstone
    • La Bella Figura:  A Field Guide to the Italian Mind, by Beppe Severgnini, Broadway Books

     

  • Russia
     
    • From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians, Yale Richmond, Intercultural Press, 1992
    • The Master and Margarita, by Mikhai Bulgakov, Vintage International

     

  • Spain
     
    • Madrid: A cultural and literary companion, Elizabeth Nash
       Interlink Books, 2001
    • Spain Is Different, Helen Watley-Ames, Intercultural Press, 1999
    • 19th and 20th century Spain to 1936:
      Charles J. Esdaile, SPAIN IN THE LIBERAL AGE, 1808-1939 [an informed textbook]
      Gerald Brenan, THE SPANISH LABYRINTH [an older book but still very valuable]
    • Franco, the Civil War, and Franco's Regime, 1936-1975:
      Paul Preston, FRANCO [a long biography, but the best one among many]
      Stanley G. Payne, THE FRANCO REGIME, 1936-1975
    • Since Franco:
      Richard Gunther, Jose Ramon Montero, and Joan Botella, DEMOCRACY IN MODERN SPAIN,
      or
      Victor M. Perez-Diaz, THE RETURN OF CIVIL SOCIETY: THE EMERGENCE OF DEMOCRATIC SPAIN