Author: Nicolás Sesma.
Not one, not big, not free. The Franco dictatorship, the history of Franco’s dictatorship written by and for a new generation. Franco’s dictatorship still marks the present. This book is an excellent analysis for those who, whether they lived through it or not, want an updated, complete and documented approach to this fundamental period of contemporary history.
Nicolás Sesma synthesises here the most recent research in national historiography and Hispanism and frames what happened in the international context. The result is the first history of the dictatorship whose protagonist is not exclusively Franco, but the Spanish people as a whole throughout those forty years, and which definitively questions the myth of a different Spain. In these pages the reader will find references to the entire national geography, to all social sectors, some of them included for the first time in a global history of the regime, and a balanced treatment of its different periods.
Equal attention is paid to the immediate post-war period and the 1970s, the victory parades and the 25th Years of Peace, the autarchy and developmentalism, the political class and the anti-Francoist opposition, the “estraperlo” and the consumer culture, the marginalised and the new middle classes. All of this is accompanied by cultural references, from literature and cinema to graphic novels and pop art, with an informative and brilliant narration.
Pages: 760
Publisher: Crítica
Binding: Hard cover
ISBN: 9788491996101
RPP: 24,60 euros
