Special Reports for "Area Studies > European" When Worlds Collide: Spain, Columbus and the New World Courtesy Embassy of Spain  King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia: Public opinion polls reveal the king to be far and away the most popular public figure in the country. Introduction Christopher Columbus must be spinning in one if not both of his proclaimed gravesites. The man who was little prone to self-doubt during ... Fifteenth-Century Background of Columbus: Conditions for Discovery A number of years ago, William McNeill of the University of Chicago wrote an influential book, The Rise of the West, which became one of ... Columbus as a Dead White European Male: The Ideological Underpinnings of the Controversy Over 1492 For most Europeans, as for most North and South Americans, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the New World next year ... The New Spain and the New Latin America In 1992 we celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. Politically correct persons in both the United ... Spain's Democratic Transition In July 1991, 23 heads of state from 21 Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations met in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the first-ever ... King Juan Carlos: El Motor del Cambio In an era when crowned heads were presumed to be on the road to extinction, Juan Carlos I stepped forward as the decisive leader of the ... Felipe Gonzalez: Decisive Leader Felipe Gonzalez, prime minister of Spain since 1982, has been the most successful electoral politician in the country's history. When his ...