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02446aam a22003258i 4500 001 FC64E5202AFE11EB800EF4DD4BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201120010115 008 200317s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020012133 020 $a 0871408686 020 $a 9780871408686 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Preston, Paul, $d 1946- $e author. 245 12 $a A people betrayed : $b a history of corruption, political incompetence and social division in modern Spain / $c Paul Preston. 246 30 $a History of corruption, political incompetence and social division in modern Spain 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company, $c 2020. 300 $a 750 pages. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston's magisterial history of modern Spain. The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only the definitive history of Spain from 1876 to 2016, but an absorbing narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that all democracies have faced in the modern world. As A People Betrayed demonstrates, Spain's decrepit political system led to defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and cost Spain the last of its major colonies. Preston shows how the humiliation and economic degradation following the loss of empire brought forth a succession of feeble governments, culminating in the tragic Spanish Civil War and the rise of Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship. The first historical work to discuss the continuities of political unrest and national anxiety in Spain up until the present, this sweeping history illuminates the vicious political cycle that continues to create a stark gulf between the people and the elite political powers who rule over them"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Political corruption $z Spain $x History. 651 0 $a Spain $x Politics and government $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Spain $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 4 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331014029.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20220906014307.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526015656.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210202014652.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FC64E5202AFE11EB800EF4DD4BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search