"More political than cultural in its emphasis, this enormously
detailed, scholarly yet thoroughly readable book about modern Spain
under Franco should fascinate any reader curious to know what
changes have been wrought in that country in the past 30 years.
Professor Herr (UCLA and Berkeley) has researched painstakingly and
drawn a clear, authentic and meaningful portrait of Spain today as
it is rapidly being transformed from an agrarian society to one now
predominantly industrial." (Publishers Weekly). "Professor Herr is
also seeking the origins of modern Spain; his history is
Aristotelian in that the end dominates the process. He seeks these
origins in the later eighteenth century when the traditional order
was perceived to be a bar to progress. A group of civil servants
influenced by the European Enlightenment sought to bring Spain into
Europe believing that industrial progress, education and agrarian
reform would do the trick; but all their reforms were opposed by
Catholic traditionalists. Hence the division into the 'two Spains.'
Yet it is not the old crude version of two Spains, so often served
up to explain everything from the failure of university reform to
the Civil War, that Professor Herr plumps for. He sees the course
of Spanish history explained by the rise and modification of the
Moderado oligarchy...he does throw out a lifeline in a sea of
complexities and gives us the best short account of Franco Spain."
(Spectator). "This is a work of substantial interest and value
which must be recommended as a well-balanced, readable, and
scholarly introduction to a subject which has never ceased to be
controversial and is still in the process of
reinterpretation...commands a high place among the general
histories of Spain." (Journal of Modern History).
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