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Out of the social and economic turmoil of Europe in the 1930s, the Popular Front emerged as the spearhead of the left's bid to stop fascism in its tracks. Fifty years on from the birth of the Popular Front this edited collection assesses the impact of the idea of bourgeois-proletarian alliance on the European left as a whole. It also examines the fate of the Popular Front governments, both in France, which remained nominally 'at peace', and in...

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The extent of the Spanish people's misplaced trust in various institutions is proposed in a manner critical of Spain's political class, military and church, in a history drawing on four decades of research.

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.

Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf. The author is one of these children, and in this book based on 150 interviews, he takes us to the place where Deaf and Hearing cultures meet.

A quirky montage of people, impression, and experience that is sometimes surreal, but more often super-realistic fiction that stretches past the usual boundaries of the inner and outer life.

Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum's Gulag and Robert Conquest's The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full picture can now be drawn of the atrocities of Franco's Spain-from torture and judicial murders to the abuse of women and children. Paul Preston provides an unforgettable account of the systemati...

La guerra civil" de Paul Preston es uno de los textos de referencia sobre el conflicto que asoló España entre 1936 y 1939 y marcó el resto del siglo XX. Ahora, cuando se cumplen ochenta años del golpe de estado que desencadenó la guerra, Preston, uno de los hispanistas de mayor prestigio internacional, actualiza y amplía su estudio incorporando tanto las últimas investigaciones y polémicas historiográficas como abundante material inédito.Impre...

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A succinct and disturbing account of the role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth century.

Spectacular Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks captures the breathtaking landscape and wildlife of one of America's most renowned regions. More than 275 photographs-from some of the country's best nature photographers-recreate the adventure and grandeur of this area that combines the world's greatest collection of geothermal features, some of the West's most spectacular mountains and its best wildlife viewing areas. This unique large-f...

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Although twentieth-century Spain has been dominated by the forces of the Right, historians have tended to concentrate their attentions on the Spanish Left. "The Politics of Revenge" redresses this balance with a disturbing interpretation of how fascists and militarists combined to overthrow democracy in Spain in the 1930s and maintained a cruel and corrupt dictatorship until the 1970s. Paul Preston's engrossing study focuses on the army offic...

This book is essential reading for whoever wants to understand Spain today and its protagonists, both individual and collective. In the best British tradition, recent politics here becomes history.' - "TLS

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No war in modern times has inflamed the passions of both ordinary people and intellectuals in the way that the conflict in Spain in 1936 did.

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