Modern Spain Sourcebook. A Cultural History from 1600 to the Present, Paperback

Description

Incorporating a wide range of visual and translated written sources, The Modern Spain Sourcebook documents Spain's history from the Enlightenment to the present.

The book is thematically arranged and includes six key primary sources on ten significant areas of Spanish history, including the arts, work, education, religion, politics, sexuality and empire. As well as the book's overarching introduction, there are theme-specific introductions and vital historical context sections provided for the sources that are presented. There are also useful suggested analytical questions and helpful web link lists included throughout.

The Modern Spain Sourcebook covers political and economic history, but moves beyond this to provide a more complete picture of Spanish history through the sources selected with gender history, social history and cultural history coming to the fore. This is a crucial text containing a vital trove of primary material for all students of Spain and its history.

Aurora G. Morcillo is Professor of History at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of Cultural and Social Memory of the Spanish Civil War: Realms of Oblivion (2014), The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic (2010) and True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco Spain (2000).

Mar a Asunci n G mez is Professor of Spanish at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of La madre muerta: El mito matricida en la literatura y el cine espa oles (2016) and Del escenario a la pantalla: La adaptaci n cinematogr fica del teatro espa ol (2000), and the co-editor, along with Santiago Juan-Navarro and Phyllis Zatlin, of History and Myth of the Mad Queen: Modern Representations of Juana of Castile (2008).

Paula De La Cruz-Fern ndez is instructor in history, research historian, and digital archivist.

Jos Manuel Morcillo-G mez is Visiting Instructor in Spanish at the University of Qingdao, China. He is a PhD Candidate in Spanish at Florida International University, USA.