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Franco: A Personal and Political Biography
Stanley G. Payne
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Hardcover. The first comprehensive scholarly biography of Franco in English, presenting an objective and deeply researched account of the Spanish dictator s personal, professional, and political life." Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; BGH; HBJD; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 239 x 48. Weight in Grams: 986.
General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all the preceding works have tended toward one extreme of interpretation or the other. This is the first comprehensive scholarly biography of Franco in English that is objective and balanced in its coverage, treating all three major aspects of his life - personal, military, and political. The coauthors, both renowned historians of Spain, present a deeply researched account ... Read more
General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all the preceding works have tended toward one extreme of interpretation or the other. This is the first comprehensive scholarly biography of Franco in English that is objective and balanced in its coverage, treating all three major aspects of his life - personal, military, and political. The coauthors, both renowned historians of Spain, present a deeply researched account ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299302108
SKU
V9780299302108
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About Stanley G. Payne
Stanley G. Payneis the Hilldale-Jaume Vicens Vives Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of many books, including A History of Fascism, 1914-1915; The Franco Regime, 1936-1975; and Spain: A Unique History. Jesùs Palacios is a noted historian, investigativwe journalist, and adjunct professor at the University of Madrid.
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