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A People Betrayed - A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018 (Paperback)
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A People Betrayed - A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R316
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From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People
Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its
political class, its military and its Church. 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 independence movements then
exploded into the civil war of 1936-1939. It took the horrors of
that war and the dictatorship that followed to break the pattern.
The moderation shared by the progressive right and a chastened left
underlay a bloodless transition to democracy after 1975. Yet, as
before, corruption and political incompetence continued to have a
corrosive effect on political coexistence and social cohesion.
Sparkling with vivid portraits of politicians and army officers,
some corrupt and others clean, recounting the triumphs and
disasters of Kings Alfonso XIII and Juan Carlos, A People Betrayed
unravels the mystery of why both right and left have been unable or
unwilling to deal with corruption and the pernicious clash between
Spanish centralist nationalism and regional desires for
independence.
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