The Ghost in the Constitution offers a reflection on the political use of the concept of historical memory foregrounding the case of Spain. The book analyses the philosophical implications of the transference of the notion of memory from the individual consciousness to the colle…
Beginning with the September Revolution of 1868, this history of modern Spain takes the reader up to 1980, the monarchy of Juan Carlos and the transition to a liberal democracy after years of dictatorship under General Franco.
Spanish history since 1808
"Leading Spanish scholars - whose work is rarely available to an anglophone audience - have combined with North American and British historians to produce a major re-evaluation of modern Spanish history, the first for some 20 years. Exploring the main issues in social, economic,…
Historia de Espana en el siglo XX
by Casanova, Julián, Gil Andrés, Carlos, Douch, Martin
This is a much-needed new overview of Spanish social and political history which sets developments in twentieth-century Spain within a broader European context. Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, and Carlos Gil Andrés chart the country's experience of democracy,…