Spain : a unique history

317 Pages·2011·1.576 MB·English, Spanish

by  Payne, Stanley G

Spain

Spain
A Unique History
Stanley G. Payne
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Publication of this volume has been made possible, in part,
through support from
the Program for Cultural Cooperation
between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and
United States Universities.
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Originally published in Spain as España: Una historia única,
copyright © 2008 by Stanley G. Payne, Jésus Cuéllar (trans.),
Ediciones Temas de Hoy, S.A. (T.H.)
English edition copyright © 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Payne, Stanley G.
[España. English]
Spain: a unique history / Stanley G. Payne.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published in Spain as España: una historia única, c2008.
ISBN 978-0-299-25024-9 (pbk.: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-299-24933-5 (e-book)
1. Spain—History. 2. Spain—Historiography. I. Title.
DP63.P1913 2011
946—dc22
2010015039
To the memory of
Francisco Javier de Lizarza Inda
(1928–2007),
most loyal of friends

Contents
List of Maps ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction: The Image of Spain 3
Part I The Formation of a Hispanist 9
Part II A Reading of the History of Spain
1 Visigoths and Asturians: “Spaniards”? 43
2 Spain and Islam: The Myth of Al-Andalus 54
3 Reconquest and Crusade: A “Spanish Ideology”? 72
4 Spain and the West 81
5 Identity, Monarchy, Empire 93
6 Spain and Portugal 111
7 Decline and Recovery 128
8 The Problem of Spanish Liberalism 143
Part III Dilemmas of Contemporary History
9 A Republic ... without Democrats? 163
10 Who Was Responsible? Origins of the Civil War
of 1936 169
11 Moscow and Madrid: A Controversial Relationship 180
12 The Spanish Civil War: Last Episode of
World War I or Opening Round of World War II? 189
13 Spanish Fascism ... a Strange Case? 199
14 Francisco Franco: Fascist Monster or Savior of
the Fatherland? 216
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Contents
15 In the Shadow of the Military 229
16 Controversies over History in Contemporary Spain 243
Notes 259
Index 285
viii
Maps
The Hispanic Peninsula in 800 42
The Hispanic Peninsula in 1300 73
Provincial divisions of modern Spain 162
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