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Las dos Españas: Terror and Crisis in Contemporary Spain (The Canada Blanch/Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain)
Dr Nicholas Manganas
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Description for Las dos Españas: Terror and Crisis in Contemporary Spain (The Canada Blanch/Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain)
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBWP; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 251 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
The idea of a divided Spain, where one half is antagonistic to the other half, dates back at least to the 19th-century Spanish satirist Mariano José de Larra who, in his essay 'All Souls Day 1836', wrote 'Here lies half of Spain. It died of the other half.' The narrative of las dos Españas is evident across many political and historical debates operating in the Spanish state, and contemporarily it shadows and informs national issues from Catalan independence to the teaching of history in schools. But it is most polemical in debates concerning the issue of terror in all its ... Read more
The idea of a divided Spain, where one half is antagonistic to the other half, dates back at least to the 19th-century Spanish satirist Mariano José de Larra who, in his essay 'All Souls Day 1836', wrote 'Here lies half of Spain. It died of the other half.' The narrative of las dos Españas is evident across many political and historical debates operating in the Spanish state, and contemporarily it shadows and informs national issues from Catalan independence to the teaching of history in schools. But it is most polemical in debates concerning the issue of terror in all its ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198497
SKU
V9781845198497
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About Dr Nicholas Manganas
Dr Nicholas Manganas completed his PhD in International Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) in 2010 and has since been teaching Business Communication at the University of Cantabria. He is the director of an English language school, The Magic Bus, in Santander, Spain. He participates in many international conferences and has published widely in multidisciplinary journals.
Reviews for Las dos Españas: Terror and Crisis in Contemporary Spain (The Canada Blanch/Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain)
The idea of the Two Spains has long been a dominant theme in Spanish historical narrative. Nicholas Manganas achievement in Las dos Espanas: Terror and Crisis in Contemporary Spain is to make it newly relevant by reframing it within todays context of terror politics. Timely, well written and clearly structured, the book guides us through the complexities of identity politics ... Read more