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After the Fall - Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain (Hardcover)
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After the Fall - Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain (Hardcover)
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List price R632
Loot Price R518
Discovery Miles 5 180
You Save R114 (18%)
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Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to
celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a generation.
Capital and country were reeling from a series of economic shocks
that had brought Spain to the brink of ruin. The housing boom had
dramatically turned to bust, a large chunk of the nation's banking
system was in state hands, businesses were closing across the
country, debt was spiralling out of control and unemployment levels
had reached a record high. AFTER THE FALL presents a rich and vivid
portrait of contemporary Spain at a critical moment in the
country's history. The book tells the story of Spain's long boom
and sudden bust, the brutal economic crisis that followed, and the
political and social aftershocks that reverberate to this day. It
explores the origins of the separatist movement in Catalonia, and
its bitter clash with the Spanish government that culminated in a
failed secession referendum and a divisive declaration of
independence. It looks at the legacy of the Civil War and Franco
dictatorship, and the continuing struggle over historical memory in
Spain today. Based on five years of reporting and hundreds of
interviews, AFTER THE FALL takes the reader from the offices of
power in Madrid and Barcelona to the villages of the Basque
country, still haunted by the memory of political violence, and to
the towns of Andalusia, where an entire generation has seen its
economic hopes shattered. It describes how the country has been
changed by the experience of migration, and why - after decades at
the margins - the far-right eventually made a return to Spanish
politics. For all the problems and challenges facing Spain today,
we see that amid the ruins of the crisis, the search for a new
Spanish model is already underway.
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