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The best account in a single volume of Spain since 1898, exemplary for concision and for accuracy in the use of language, as well as for equanimity and generosity of spirit' Felipe Fernández-Armesto, TLS

A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first

''Spain is different,'' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its ''glorious empire'' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, the prevailing narrative of modern Spain has emphasized the country''s peculiarity. Generations of historians and readers have been transfixed by its implosion into civil war in the 1930s, seduced by the valiant struggle of the republicans, horrified by the barbarity of the dictatorship which followed. Franco''s Spain was seen as an anomaly in the midst of prosperous and permissive post-war Western Europe. But, as Nigel Townso

The Penguin History of Modern Spain

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/11/2024
    ISBN13: 9780141984216, 978-0141984216
    ISBN10: 014198421X

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    The best account in a single volume of Spain since 1898, exemplary for concision and for accuracy in the use of language, as well as for equanimity and generosity of spirit' Felipe Fernández-Armesto, TLS

    A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first

    ''Spain is different,'' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its ''glorious empire'' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, the prevailing narrative of modern Spain has emphasized the country''s peculiarity. Generations of historians and readers have been transfixed by its implosion into civil war in the 1930s, seduced by the valiant struggle of the republicans, horrified by the barbarity of the dictatorship which followed. Franco''s Spain was seen as an anomaly in the midst of prosperous and permissive post-war Western Europe. But, as Nigel Townso

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