Raymond Carr pioneered a new way of looking at modern Spanish
history, releasing Spaniards form the shackles of Romantic myth and
allowing them to see their nation as a country like any other,
rather than one set apart from the rest of Europe. Born in humble
circumstances, he journeyed through a fascinating period in
twentieth-century British history, vaulting the class barriers that
were still very much in place in the England of his day and turning
himself into an interested and acutely observant member of the
exclusive and decadent world of the late aristocracy, even becoming
a keen huntsman. Familiar with the intricate and secret highways
and byways of Oxford, both as an undergraduate at Christ Church
and, later, as a Fellow of All Souls and of New College, he
eventually became Warden of St Antony's. Throughout his Oxford
life, he met and befriended some of the most important, eccentric,
and charismatic intellectual figures of the entire twentieth
century. But he was also on first-name terms with aristocrats,
prime ministers, artists, spies, the foremost U.S. players in the
Cold War, and military leaders in Francoist Spain. This biography
tells a story that is in some ways stranger than fiction. By
tracing the various facets of Raymond Carr's life and personality
as intellectual, traveller, social chameleon, academic mover and
shaker, lover of politics, and unrepentant enquirer into anything
and everything to do with life and human history the author builds
a masterly picture of the society into which he was born, the
politics and culture of a England that is now lost to us, and the
work of one of England's major Hispanists. Published in association
with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies
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