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As the author of a monograph on Spain between 1914 and 1918, Dr Romero is an expert in the crisis of liberal Spain and it is here where he begins his story. The book's starting point is the deep and abiding trauma of 1898, of military defeat by the United States and the consequent loss of the remnants of Spain's colonial empire.
‘Of the few integral histories of Spain’s twentieth century which have appeared since 2000, none has so skilfully blended political and social approaches. Julián Casanova and Carlos Gil Andrés meet the challenge admirably, incorporating the most recent research in a highly accessible way and producing an account which is at once ...
- Julián Casanova, Carlos Gil Andrés
- 2014
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Spain was still mostly rural; most of the large-scale, modern industry existed as textile mills around Barcelona in Catalonia and in the metallurgical plants of the Basque provinces and some shipyards around the country. The loss of Cuba and the Philippines benefited Spain by causing capital to return and ...
The Early 20th Century. The dawn of the 20th century in Spain was marked by a series of profound unsolved problems. Some of these problems were structural; the population had almost doubled since the beginning of the previous century, rising from 11 to 18.5 million in a land of limited resources.
May 26, 2023 · Preston, professor of international history at the London School of Economics, is the author of numerous excellent books on 20th-century Spain, especially the civil-war era.
Thus, Spain fell behind between 1815 and 1950 (Figure 2). The nineteenth century and the early twentieth century witnessed sustained per capita GDP growth while paradoxically the gap with the industrialised countries widened over 1883-1913. The gap deepened further during the first half of the twentieth century. This finding is
Nov 18, 2014 · This new overview of Spanish social and political history sets developments in 20th-century Spain within a broader European context. Julian Casanova, visiting professor in the Department of History at CEU, and Carlos Gil Andres, professor of history at the University of Zaragoza, chart the country's experience of democracy, dictatorship and civil war and its dramatic transformation from an ...
