Violencia – A new history of Spain: Past, present and the future of the west

Name: Violencia - A new history of Spain: Past, present and the future of the west
SKU: LA-039499
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ISBN: 9781472129857

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SKU: LA-039499 Categorías: Idiomas, Inglés, LIBROS

Descripción

Autor: Jason Webster
Descripción: ed. Constable (2019); 418 págs.; como nuevo; encuadernación cartoné
Idioma: Inglés
Sinopsis: Spain’s crises are deepening: Catalans struggle for independence, political parties push to the extremes, and the dead call restlessly to the living. Will the country follow the example of its history by resolving its problems once again through violence? Spain is often overlooked as a mere tourist destination. Yet we ignore events there at our peril, for a long view of the country’s history reveals how it has shaped the Western world by presaging everything from the Crusades to the European Renaissance, Western colonialism, the Second World War and the Cold War. This truth has never before been grasped, however, because Spain is a Cassandra country. As with Troy’s prophetess, so Spain’s prescience is doomed to be ignored – not only by her neighbours, but also by her own people. Today, Spain has returned to the headlines because she is once again caught in an ancient pattern of deciding through civil conflict whether to remain united or splinter into many parts. We speak of the Spanish Civil War as if there had only ever been one, yet every century in Spanish history has seen bloody engagement, each time over intractable questions about national identity. Can the twenty-first century prove any different? And how will developments in Spain echo in the rest of the Western world?

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