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Spain, influential historians once maintained, was an "exceptional" country--meaning that, in many key respects, it lay outside the course of European history. Unlike any other nation of Western Europe, Spain was for centuries the province of Islamic rulers, and the crowned heads of other parts of the continent scorned it as an "oriental," necessarily backward nation--when in many ways it was considerably more advanced than its neighbors.
The exceptionalist view of Spanish history was misguided and damaging, writes the eminent historian Raymond Carr, but it was one that many Spanish people accepted: to them, it helped explain why Spain, once so mighty and rich an empire, should have fallen behind while the rest of Europe grew stronger and wealthier, and why a retrograde ruler like Franco could have remained in power when democracy flourished elsewhere.
Carr and his colleagues, including several Spanish scholars, seek to restore Spain to the mainstream of European history in this highly useful survey. Taking in a view that extends deep into prehistory and forward to the recent presidential elections, the contributors emphasize the diversity of Spain's many peoples, whose union under the kings and queens of Castile and Aragon would bring so much of the world under Spanish dominion, and the difficulty of maintaining that political union in the recent climate of ethnic and regional rivalry. --Gregory McNamee -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Spain once ruled the seas, creating a vast empire with its investment in New World exploration and its subsequent gain of wealth. Its history is a tale of division, distrust, and internal unrest. Its literature is plentiful and rich. And Spain has seldom been allotted the kind of well-researched narrative historical overview that this excellent volume gives it. Due to Francoist restrictions and forced historical revisionism, it is only now that Spain's history can be given an objective look, by both Spanish and non-Spanish historians. As restrictions and access to historical documents become relaxed, only this generation's authors have fully realized the fascinating and epic nature of Spain's history. Edited by Oxford historian Carr, Spain presents a journey through the nation's entire history: from its prehistoric settlement through Roman, Visigothic, and Islamic rule, and from its golden age of exploration to the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, Franco's resulting rule, the monarchy's reestablishment, Basque separatists, and modern Spain's political unrest. Despite its slow moving density, this is a wonderful overview of an oft-unexplored history. Michael Spinella
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RICHARD Ford's statement that Spain is not one country but several, while now almost a cliche, bears repeating. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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RICHARD Ford's statement that Spain is not one country but several, while now almost a cliche, bears repeating. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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In dem von Raymond Carr herausgegebenen Sammelband zur spanischen Geschichte sind Aufsätze ausgewiesener Experten versammelt, die sich jeweils auf wissenschaftlich fundiertem und zugleich gut lesbarem Niveau mit den eizelnen Phasen der Geschichte Spaniens auseinandersetzen. So entsteht ein - im übrigen sehr schön illustriertes - Panorama Spaniens, das von der Antike und der Besetzung der Iberischen Halbinsel durch die Römer bis zur heutigen Situation Spaniens unter José María Aznar als Mitglied der EU und im Kampf gegen den ETA-Terrorismus reicht. Die jeweiligen Abschnitte präsentieren sich auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung und bilden durch die je eigene Akzentsetzung eine abwechslungsreiche Zusammenschau der Entwicklung des Landes von der Antike bis heute, ohne in Oberflächlichkeit zu versinken. Kurz: ein Buch, das weiterführende Anmerkungen und Literaturverweise enthält und dennoch ein Lesevergnügen bietet.
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A Brief, Yet Complete, History
8. April 2001
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I am shortly leaving on my third trip to Spain and, every time before I go, I try to read another history of the country. This time around it was this book, Spain: A History.
Oxford University Press can usually be counted on to put out a good product and this book is no exception. It is a nice coverage of the very complex past of Spain from pre-history to the present. It is edited by Raymond Carr but the individual chapters were written by different authors. Carr himself covers only the period from 1833-1931.
Ironically, it is Carr's section that I find the weakest of the book. He wanders through so many different names and governments that I became a bit lost. This is one of the main dangers about writing of Spain's recent past, I guess, since it seems that the leadership often changed minute by minute. Still, the earlier sections of the book are much more engaging.
Overall, I found this book to be a good read. It is quite detailed but still rather brief. Sometimes these histories tend to get lost over a thousand pages or so. This book can be read in a reasonalbe amount of time. I was also pleased to see how the importance of regionalism in Spain is brought out. For anyone interested in getting the big picture of Spanish history, this is a book for you.
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A coherent, interesting introduction to a broad subject
18. Juni 2002
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First, you must realize that a 300-page book that covers 2500 years of history can only accomplish the briefest of surveys. This book does a solid job with this task. The text is sensibly divided into nine chapters, each covering a distinct historical period. Raymond Carr is the editor and author of one chapter. Considering that each chapter has a different author, the book has a remarkably unified feel. Carr has done a good job making sure each chapter supports the others and avoiding redundancy. There is good balance as well; most chapters touch on social, demographic, economic, and cultural trends as well as the obligatory political narrative. This gives the reader nice insights into the character of each period and helps to understand the course of events.
Also, there are several high-quality pictures included, a bonus for a short survey history book. The bibliography has helped me choose other books to read. It is organized by chapter, which is helpful although some referenced books ought to have been included under more than one chapter.
I do have one complaint: there is no chapter on Islamic Spain. This topic is not covered at all, except peripherally when the Moors directly impinge upon the medieval Christian kingdoms. The Moorish presence is probably the single factor that, more than any other, distinguishes Spanish history from that of other Western European countries. Islamic Spain also made a huge contribution to the development of Western civilization by serving as the avenue for the reintroduction of Aristotle's works to Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Also, most of Spain was under Islamic rule for about 500 years. These facts are all discussed from the outsider view point of the Christian kingdoms, but I feel a chapter highlighting the nature of Islamic civilization in Spain would have been a tremendous addition.
Overall, however, the book quickly familiarizes the reader with the broad panorama of Spanish history in a coherent and enjoyable way. If you need such an introduction, I recommend this book.
[Reviewer's background: I am a non-historian who mostly reads history in his spare time. After a fascinating trip to Spain, I decided to pick this book up as my first introduction to its history.]
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Short, fairly easy, big picture history
11. Juni 2002
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Since it is written by various authors, the book is not entirely of an even quality. The earlier parts and the last chapter are the best. But it is all reasonably good. It is fairly clear cut and brief so you do not get bogged down. It has a great reading list for further adventures. It does not have a lot of nit-picking footnotes that I have to compulsively read. It does have a lot of excellent and helpful black and white illustrations. I rarely finish a history book. I finished this one.
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