Synopses & Reviews
Spain Transformed addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. This wide-ranging collection reassesses the dictatorship's latter years by drawing on a wealth of new material and ideas, using an interdisciplinary approach.
About the Author
NIGEL TOWNSON is a senior lecturer in the History of Political Thought and Social and Political Movements at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Author of The Crisis of Democracy in Spain: Centrist Politics under the Second Republic, 1931-1936, he is also editor of a general history of Spanish republicanism: El republicanismo en Espaa, 1830-1977; three volumes of the work of the Spanish writer and Civil War exile Arturo Barea; and a counterfactual history of modern Spain: Historia virtual de Espaa, 1870-2004.
Table of Contents
Introduction--N.Townson * The Golden Age of Spanish Capitalism: Economic Growth without Political Freedom--P.Martn .Acea&E.Martnez Ruiz * Tourism and Political Change in Franco's Spain--S.D.Pack * The Change in Mentalities during the late Franco Regime--W.L.Bernecker * How different was Spain? The late Franco Regime in International Context--T.Buchanan * Order, Progress, and Syndicalism? How the late Francoist Authorities saw Socio-economic Change--A.Cazorla Sanchez * New Political Mentalities in the tardofranquismo--C.Palomares * Associations and the Social Origins of the Transition during the Late Franco Regime--P.Radcliff * Cultural Diversity and the Development of a Pre-Democratic Civil Society in Spain--E.Chuli * The Spanish Church: Change and Continuity--W.J. Callahan * The Origins of Democratic Support in post-Franco Spain: Learning to be a Democrat under Authoritarian Rule?--M.Torcal * The United States and Spain: From Franco to Juan Carlos--C.Powell * The Franco Dictatorship: A Bifurcated Regime?--E.Malefakis