Nigel Townson's Is Spain Different?: A Comparative Look at the 19th and 20th PDF

By Nigel Townson

The slogan that introduced the vacationer within the Nineteen Sixties, "Spain is Different!," has come to hang-out historians. a lot attempt and effort were expended ever due to the fact that in endeavoring to teach that Spain has now not been assorted, yet general. nonetheless, some of the defining beneficial properties of the country's past—the civil wars, the susceptible liberalism, the Franco dictatorship—are taken as proof of its uniqueness. A similar challenge is that few historians have really put Spain's trajectory during the last centuries inside of a really comparative context. This e-book does so by means of tackling a few key subject matters in glossy Spanish historical past: liberalism, nationalism, anticlericalism, the second one Republic, the Franco dictatorship, and the transition to democracy. Is Spain varied? thereby deals a clean and stimulating viewpoint on Spain's fresh earlier sheds new mild at the present political debates concerning Spain's position within the world.

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