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This study of the Spanish Labor Movement in Barcelona from 1939 to 1988 explores working-class life and culture, labor relations, and politics during and after the authoritarian regime of Francisco Franco. Using the archives of Franco's secret police, Balfour here presents a unique look into the modus operandi of the dictatorship and its effects on the working class experience.

This is the first full account in any language of Spain's disastrous war with the United States in 1898, in which it lost the remnants of its old empire. It is also the first comprehensive analysis of the ensuing political and social crisis in Spain from the loss of empire through the First World War to the military coup of 1923. Balfour's study essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of the Spanish crisis in the first half of the...

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The Politics of Contemporary Spain' charts the trajectory of Spanish politics since the transition to democracy through to the present day, including the aftermath of the Madrid bombings.

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Unravelling the fierce debate in Spain about national identity, this book locates the source of Spain's division in the partial nationalization of Spaniards, the legacy of Franco, and the peculiar architecture of the state. The book also looks at scenarios for change, concluding that whatever their outcome, Spain will continue to reinvent itself.

Combining military, political, cultural, social, and oral history, Sebastian Balfour narrates for the first time the development of a brutalized, interventionist army that played a crucial role in the victory of the Francoists in the Spanish Civil War. Spain's new colonial venture in Moroccoin the early twentieth-century turned into a bloody war against the tribes resisting the Spanish invasion of their lands. After suffering a succession of h...

Esta es la más reciente, completa y actualizada biografía política de Fidel Castro. Biografía política centrada en las decisiones y los procesos de toma de decisión que ha venido practicando desde sus primeras acciones políticas hasta su renuncia al poder.Escrita por un respetado historiador, y con la sabiduría de los anglosajones para construir personajes, este texto se puede leer por todos aquellos que deseen conocer en profundidad a unos de...

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España reinventada analiza, tanto desde la perspectiva histórica como desde la política, las transformaciones que el concepto de España, como nación, y la identidad nacional española han sufrido desde la muerte de Franco hasta nuestros días. Se trata de un tema que ha acaparado buena parte de la atención política y mediática en los últimos treinta años y hoy constituye uno de los elementos centrales del debate político.Durante generaciones la ...

Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Centuryexamines the international context to, and influences on, Spanish history and politics from 1898 to the present day. Spanish history is necessarily international, with the significance of Spain's neutrality in the First World War and the global influences on the outcome of the Spanish Civil War.Taking the Defeat in the Spanish American war of 1898 as a starting point, the book includes surveys...

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