People Betrayed - A History Of 20th Century Spain
Paul Preston
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Detalhes do Produto
- Editora: HarperCollins
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- Ano: 2020
- ISBN: 9780007558377
- Número de páginas: 768
- Capa: Brochado
Sinopse
This comprehensive history of modern Spain chronicles the fomenting of violent social division throughout the country by institutionalised corruption and startling political incompetence. Most spectacularly during the Primo de Rivera and Franco dictatorships, grotesque and shameless corruption went hand-in-hand with inept policies that prolonged Spain’s economic backwardness well into the 1950s.
A People Betrayed looks back to the years prior to 1923 when electoral corruption excluded the masses from organized politics and gave them a choice between apathetic acceptance and violent revolution. Bitter social conflict, economic tensions and conflict between centralist nationalism and regional…
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