Tourism and Dictatorship - Europe's Peaceful Invasion of Franco's Spain (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

In the three decades following the Second World War, during the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain became the playground for millions of carefree tourists from Europe's prosperous democracies. This book chronicles how their presence not only helped to strengthen the Franco regime's economic and political standing, but also provoked institutional change, undermining the dictatorship's moral austerity and economic autarky. The study looks beneath exotic imagery of bulls and flamenco dancers, and sensationalized stories of Francoist police persecuting bikini-clad foreigners, to examine how the advent of foreign tourism profoundly influenced the regime's diplomatic and economic orientations as early as 1945. In the 1960s, mass tourism was emblematic of a dynamic, modernizing Spain, and contributed significantly to the changing political and social conditions in which Spain's post-Franco democracy was born.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	October 2006
Authors:	S Pack
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	273
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-7502-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry
LSN:	1-4039-7502-7
Barcode:	9781403975027

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