Triumph of Democracy in Spain
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1987
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780203392966
Subjects: Politics and government; 1975-; 1939-1975; Resistance to Government; Spain; History
Description: |This book is essential reading for whoever wants to understand Spain today and its protagonists, both individual and collective. In the best British tradition, recent politics here becomes history.' - TLS.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Map of the regions and provinces of Spain; The internal contradictions of Francoism 1939 69; Holding back the tide: the Carrero Blanco years 1969 73; A necessary evil: the Arias Navarro experience 1974 6; Reconciling the irreconcilable: the political reform of Adolfo Surez 1976 7; Building a new world with the bricks of the old: the democratic pact 1977 9; Chronicle of a death foretold: the fall of Surez 1979 81; Out of the ashes: the consolidation of democracy 1981 2; Dramatis personae.