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Preston, Paul, 1946-
Subjects
Spain -- History -- 1868-1931.
Spain -- History -- Republic, 1931-1939.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939.
Spain -- History -- 1939-1975.
Spain -- History -- 1975-
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Preston, Paul, 1946-
Spain -- History -- 1868-1931.
Spain -- History -- Republic, 1931-1939.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939.
Spain -- History -- 1939-1975.
Spain -- History -- 1975-
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A
people
betrayed
: a
history
of
corruption
,
political
incompetence
and
social
division
in
modern
Spain
,
1874-2018
/ Paul Preston.
by
Preston, Paul, 1946-
William Collins, 2020.
Call #:
946.08 P939p
Subjects
Spain
--
History
-- 1868-1931.
Spain
--
History
-- Republic, 1931-1939.
Spain
--
History
-- Civil War, 1936-1939.
Spain
--
History
-- 1939-1975.
Spain
--
History
-- 1975-
ISBN:
9780007558377 (hc.)
Description:
xvi, 750 p. : ill., portraits ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"From the foremost historian of 20th century
Spain
, A
People
Betrayed
is the story of the devastating betrayal of
Spain
by its
political
class, its military and its Church. In 1898
Spain
was in a state of despair and unrest. They had lost the war with America and with it the last of their major colonies: Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The catastrophe stoked
Spain
's internal conflicts, and the country saw a succession of collapsing dictatorships and democracies that, with mounting anguish, culminated in all-out civil war and nearly four decades of hard dictatorship. When
Spain
recovered its democracy in the 1970s, the pattern seemed broken. The country was back in good health, and held up as a model for other nations transitioning to democracy in Eastern Europe and Latin America. But the spectacular boom seen in
Spain
's first years of membership in the European Economic Community masked a rotten core. The country's underlying issues had not been fully resolved and the present crisis facing
Spain
is the result of an incomplete transition. A
People
Betrayed
covers the lives of the individuals, heroes and villains who made a huge difference the dictators Primo de Rivera and Franco, the mass murders of the civil war, and important statesman such as Manuel Azaa, Juan Negrn and Ramon Serrano Suer, and rise and subsequent discrediting of the monarchy of King Juan Carlos and the extremists of right and left. Paul Preston, a specialist in Spanish
History
at the LSE, tells a sweeping
history
of
modern
Spain
- and points to a curious pattern that leads the country repeatedly into tumult: a disconnect between the
social
reality and the
political
powers ruling over it."
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