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Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know®
William Chislett
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Description for Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Paperback. Spain has undergone significant transformations over the past three decades. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know, veteran journalist William Chislett recounts the country's fascinating and often turbulent history, its present economic crisis, and talks about the road ahead for the nation. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 212 x 17. Weight in Grams: 276.
Spain has undergone significant transformations over the past three decades, from a dictatorship to a democracy and from a mostly local and agriculture-based economy to one of the biggest financial systems in the EU and internationally. Until 2008, it enjoyed a major influx of foreign investment and the most rapid economic growth of any of the countries in the EU, resulting in half of the new jobs created during the early days of the Union. Yet, it now faces the highest rate of unemployment in Europe and slow growth for the foreseeable future. Additionally, the country faces internal strife from ... Read more
Spain has undergone significant transformations over the past three decades, from a dictatorship to a democracy and from a mostly local and agriculture-based economy to one of the biggest financial systems in the EU and internationally. Until 2008, it enjoyed a major influx of foreign investment and the most rapid economic growth of any of the countries in the EU, resulting in half of the new jobs created during the early days of the Union. Yet, it now faces the highest rate of unemployment in Europe and slow growth for the foreseeable future. Additionally, the country faces internal strife from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199936465
SKU
V9780199936465
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About William Chislett
William Chislett is a journalist based in Madrid. He covered Spain's transition to democracy (1975-78) for The Times of London and was later the Mexico correspondent for the Financial Times (1978-84). He writes about Spain for the Elcano Royal Institute, which has published three books of his on the country, and he has a weekly column in the online newspaper ... Read more
Reviews for Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know®
A concise yet nuanced account of the history of Spain.
Julius Purcell, Times Literary Supplement
Spain is a model of intelligent concision, and it is splendidly balanced in its judgments and assessments. Perhaps at this moment it is Spaniards themselves who stand most in need of it, but it will attract a wide range of readers.
- ... Read more
Julius Purcell, Times Literary Supplement
Spain is a model of intelligent concision, and it is splendidly balanced in its judgments and assessments. Perhaps at this moment it is Spaniards themselves who stand most in need of it, but it will attract a wide range of readers.
- ... Read more