The New Spaniards - Couverture souple

Hooper, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140131914 ISBN 13 : 9780140131918

Editeur : Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

Over 30 million foreigners travel to Spain every year - more than any other country, yet all but a handful see little of the country besides the holiday costas. This book describes the real Spain that has emerged since the death of Franco, a country of immense industrial and cultural creativity, of police trade unions and wife-swapping bars, a federal monarchy with a tax-paying king, a welfare state in which three-quarters of the unemployed do not qualify for assistance. Unlike many books on Spain, this book eschews politics to focus on the society and how it functions. The book won the Allen Lane Award.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary preoccupations exist side by side. Focussing on issues which affect ordinary Spaniards, from housing to gambling, from changing sexual mores to rising crime rates. John Hooper's fascinating study brings to life the new Spain of the twenty-first century.

Revue de presse

Unputdownable . . . A must for anyone . . . who wants to know what Spain is really like. (New Statesman, London)

Hooper . . . not only knows where Spain has been in recent decades and centuries, but he also has an impressively authoritative view of where exactly it is today and where it is headed. (The Washington Post)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140131914
• ISBN 13: 9780140131918
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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