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A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
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 a definitive history of modern Spain but also a compelling narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that virtually all democracies have faced in the modern world. Whereas so many twentieth-century Spanish histories begin with Franco and the devastating Civil War, Paul Preston’s magisterial work begins in the late nineteenth century with Spain’s collapse as a global power, especially reflected in its humiliating defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and its loss of colonial territory. This loss hung over Spain in the early years of the twentieth century, its agrarian economic base standing in stark contrast to the emergence of England, Germany, and France as industrial powers. Looking back to the years prior to 1923, Preston demonstrates how electoral corruption infiltrated almost every sector of Spanish life, thus excluding the masses from organized politics and giving them a bitter choice between apathetic acceptance of a decrepit government or violent revolution. So ineffective was the Republic—which had been launched in 1873—that it paved the way for a military coup and dictatorship, led by Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1923, exacerbating widespread profiteering and fraud. When Rivera was forced to resign in 1930, his fall brought forth a succession of feeble governments, stoking rancorous tensions that culminated in the tragic Spanish Civil War. With astonishing detail, Preston describes the ravages that rent Spain in half between 1936 and 1939. Tracing the frightening rise of Francisco Franco, Preston recounts how Franco grew into Spain’s most powerful military leader during the Civil War and how, after the war, he became a fascistic dictator who not only terrorized the Spanish population through systematic oppression and murder but also enriched corrupt officials who profited from severe economic plunder of Spain’s working class. The dictatorship lasted through World War II—during which Spain sided with Mussolini and Hitler—and only ended decades later, in 1975, when Franco’s death was followed by a painful yet bloodless transition to republican democracy. Yet, as Preston reveals, corruption and political incompetence continued to have a corrosive effect on social cohesion into the twenty-first century, as economic crises, Catalan independence struggles, and financial scandals persist in dividing the country. Filled with vivid portraits of politicians and army officers, revolutionaries and reformers, and written in the “absorbing” (Economist) style for which Preston is so revered, A People Betrayed is the first historical work to examine the continuities of political unrest and national anxiety in Spain up until the present, providing a chilling reminder of just how fragile democracy remains in the twenty-first century.
Profecias en el Pentateuco.
Author: Alejandro Roque Glez
language: en
Publisher: Alejandro's Libros
Release Date: 2011-06
En la presente obra te ofrecemos las profecías bíblicas ubicadas en los capítulos que comprenden los primeros cinco libros que conforman la biblia llamados Pentateuco, teniendo en cuenta que desde el mismo comienzo de la Creación Dios anuncia lo que ocurriría en el transcurso de los siglos hasta el mismísimo final de nuestra era; sin embargo, ocurre que el Antiguo Testamento es ignorado, atrayendo entonces un sin número de incógnitas que nunca se llegan a descifrar debido al desconocimiento generalizado. Aquí explicamos al detalle diferentes sistemas que matemáticamente certifican y señalan hacia nuestra Era como la esperada y anunciada por todos los profetas. Ellos son: 'Sistema del 3', Sistema del 5', 'Sistema del 7', y 'Sistema del 14', entre otros análisis importantes.Como libro de estudio es más que nada lo que el Espíritu Santo de Dios ha revelado, y fruto del estudio esforzado de todas las profecías bíblicas--durante veinte años--que señalan indudablemente hacia nuestra era apocalíptica y el comienzo de las promesas eternas establecidas en las Sagradas Escrituras y próximas a revelarse. Es por tanto un libro dirigido a aquellos interesados en escudriñar-como se nos dice en San Juan 5:39-las profecías bíblicas, incluidas dentro del Plan de Dios, dedicándole tiempo, paciencia y mucha oración.Deseamos de todo corazón que las Escrituras proféticas te acerquen más al Creador hallando la Salvación y puerta de entrada a la eternidad a través de nuestro Redentor. Esperamos que te sea de ayuda para seguir velando y estar preparados para los ciertos y duros acontecimientos que se le avecinan a la humanidad en nuestros días. INDICE: -Notas del autor. -Profecías en el Pentateuco. -Libro del Génesis. -Libro del Éxodo. -Libro de Levítico. -Libro de Números. -Libro de Deuteronomio. -Reflexión Intertestamentaria. -Acerca del autor. www.alejandroslibros.com
The Spanish Holocaust
Author: Paul Preston
language: en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date: 2012-06-04
Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco’s Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work. Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum’s Gulag and Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full picture can now be drawn of the atrocities of Franco’s Spain—from torture and judicial murders to the abuse of women and children. Paul Preston provides an unforgettable account of the systematic terror carried out by Spain’s fascist government.