Spanish History since 1808

by Adrian Shubert (Editor), José Álvarez Junco (Editor)

This comprehensive treatment of Spanish history captures nearly two centuries of Spain in one volume. It provides a major re-evaluation of modern Spain and draws from the work of leading international historians.
The book is organized into chronological sections around the main periods of historical change in Spain and each section provides an in-depth exploration of the principle themes and developments for its period. Researchers have also drawn extensive material from archives from recently released materials from the post-Franco years.

Genres: History, Spain

400 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2000

About the author

Adrian Shubert is a Canadian historian and Hispanist, professor, and chair of History at York University in Toronto.
He has authored works such as Hacia la revolución. Orígenes sociales del movimiento obrero en Asturias, 1860-1934 (1984), A Social History of Modern Spain (1990), Spain at War: The Spanish Civil War in Context, 1931-1939 (1995), Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight (1999), A las cinco de la tarde, una historia social del toreo (2002), and a monumental biography of Spanish General Baldomero Espartero, Espartero, el Pacificador (2018), among others.

Reviews

[Nate Mathewson]

Decent history book, however, supplemental primary source material may be a good partner for a History of Spain and Portugal course.

[Thorlakur]

This old university textbook still proves to give a good overview of Spain's recent history. Tracing the history back to Spain's war of liberation against Napoleon's armies, explains the country's problems with liberalism, sowing the seeds of dissent that would eventually lead to a full blown civil war in the twentieth century.