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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Townson, Nigel.     Subjects     Spain -- History -- 20th century.     Spain -- History -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Townson, Nigel.       by title:      The Penguin history ...       by call number:      946.08 T755p     Search the Web     Townson, Nigel.     Spain -- History -- 20th century.     Spain -- History -- 21st century.       MARC Display

The Penguin history of modern Spain : 1898 to the present / Nigel Townson. by Townson, Nigel. Allen Lane, 2023. Call #: 946.08 T755p Subjects Spain -- History -- 20th century.   Spain -- History -- 21st century. ISBN:  9780241281451 (hc) Alternate title:  History of modern Spain Description:  xxiv, 575 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "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 Townson shows in this richly layered and exciting new history, beyond the familiar image, there lies a radically different history of Spain: of a dynamic and progressive society that fits firmly into the narrative of modern Europe. Drawing on over forty years of post-Franco scholarship, The Penguin History of Modern Spain transforms our knowledge of Spain and its politics, society, economics and culture. It interweaves cutting-edge Spanish-led research -- never before published in English -- and testimonies of peasants, housewives, soldiers, workers, entrepreneurs, feminists and worker-priests, for an original and surprising portrait, which allows us, at last, to discern the country behind the veil of propaganda and romantic myths which still endure today."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 946.08 T755p Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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