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Detail A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
Author : Paul Preston
Pages : 768 pages
Publisher : Liveright
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ISBN-10 : 0871408686
ISBN-13 : 9780871408686
Synopsis A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history of modern Spain but also a compelling narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that virtually all democracies have faced in the modern world.Whereas so many twentieth-century Spanish histories begin with Franco and the devastating Civil War, Paul Preston?s magisterial work begins in the late nineteenth century with Spain?s collapse as a global power, especially reflected in its humiliating defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and its loss of colonial territory.This loss hung over Spain in the early years of the twentieth century, its agrarian economic base standing in stark contrast to the emergence of England, Germany, and France as industrial powers. Looking back to the years prior to 1923, Preston demonstrates how electoral corruption infiltrated almost every sector of Spanish life, thus excluding the masses from organized politics and