Spain : a unique history /

"An excellent, balanced discussion of important controversies."--Juan Linz, author of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Stanley G.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2011.
Edition:English ed.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The formation of a Hispanist. A reading of the history of Spain. Visigoths and Asturians: "Spaniards"?
  • Spain and Islam: the myth of Al-Andalus
  • Reconquest and crusade: a "Spanish ideology"?
  • Spain and the west: identity, monarchy, empire
  • Spain and Portugal
  • Decline and recovery
  • The problem of Spanish liberalism
  • Dilemmas of contemporary history. A republic-- without democrats?
  • Who was responsible? Origins of the Civil War of 1936
  • Moscow and Madrid: a controversial relationship
  • The Spanish Civil War: last episode of World War I or opening round of World War II?
  • Spanish fascism-- a strange case?
  • Francisco Franco: fascist monster or savior of the fatherland? In the shadow of the military
  • Controversies over history in contemporary Spain.