Spain 1808-1975 (Second Edition) de Raymond Carr

The first edition of this book was published in 1966.

It is now in paperblack for the first time.

It became a standard work as a survey of the economic, social, and political origins of mofern Spain leading up to the apparent defeat of the liberal tradition with General Franco's victory in the Civil War.

Since 1966 there has been a revolution in Spanish historiography.

The more modern history of Spain, a neglected, even dangerous field, virtually unexplored, has since comme into its own.

In this edition Raymond Carr has added neuw chapters tha examine Fracoism, its political system, and the society it sustained.

He brings the story yp to the death of General Franco in 1975, and in an extensive bibliographical essay considers the recent contributions of Spanish scholars to the period 1808-1939.