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Title: Modern Spain, 1875-1980 by Raymond Carr ISBN: 0-19-280129-5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Summary: Human nature has a compound middle name: Complexity Galore.
Comment: Those who are curious about the historical workings of modern Spanish labour and political history from 1875-1980, will serve their minds quite well in reading this title. The author, Mr. Carr, brings to the reader - an illuminating work distinctly expressing a balance of sufficient historical detail counteracted most positively, by an obligatory laconic approach.
Preceding 1875, Spain's "anaemic" history of the industrialist/labourer relationship had long been existant from the 1830's. Throughout the book, the author serves to describe more or less emphatically, natural obstacles hindering the early Spanish industrial revolution. For over a thousand years, psychological and environmental differences amongst the varying regional mentalities and topograghies of the country were acutely (and still are) recognized and preserved by Castilians, Catalonians, Valencians, Asturians, Galicians, Andalusians, Aragonese, Leonese, Basques etc.
Hence, nineteenth-century economic needs and demands from both labour and industrialists were always at odds from region-to-region. Augmenting this basic complexity was the growing frequency of intra-party factions, electoral manipulation, church-burning, innumerous strikes and assassinations by both civilians and, an increasingly intervening military. The core issue throughout this time period: An effective, congruous establishment of a "national economic" vision entailing long-term growth. The entry into what was considered by some to be a "Godless" era of mass-modernity, were the traditionally-minded peasants, industrialists, conservatives and churchmen - for they feared the gradual, societal disintegration of Classical, Catholic Spain.
Yet astonishingly, there were those political, military, religious and civilian figures wanting to see a Spain fully industrialized via the exemplary French/English model. It is this overall social/political dichotomy (also recognized by Spaniards), that Mr. Carr gently explicates, the understanding of how such perennial intransigence (both an excellent and horrible human quality) on the part of all parties, generated the unfortunate broth for a "violent soup" that became the Spanish Civil War.
Post-civil war recovery, Opus Dei, growing consumerism, transition to democracy and the restoration of monarchy are covered in more general detail.
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Title: Spanish History Since 1808 by Jose Alvarez Junco, Adrian Shubert, Jose Alvarez Junco ISBN: 0340662298 Publisher: Edward Arnold Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977 by Stanley G. Payne ISBN: 0299165647 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Spain: A History by Raymond Carr ISBN: 0192802364 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Jose Ortega y. Gasset ISBN: 0393310957 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell ISBN: 0156421178 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: October, 1969 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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