Paul Preston

La historia del siglo XX español contada por el eminente hispanista Paul Preston. Paul Preston emprende en esta obra el reto más atractivo para cualquier historiador: condensar su objeto de investigación en un manejable libro, reflejo de tantos años de experiencia. Con una concisión abrumadora, estas páginas exponen la historia del siglo XX en España, con el tema subyacente del desajuste entre una población deseosa de progresar y unas elites que no cesan de bloquear sus intentos. Un pueblo traicionado es, en definitiva, una crónica sobrecogedora de la devastadora deslealtad hacia los españoles por parte de su clase política, impasible ante la realidad social del país.

España de 1874 a nuestros días : corrupción, incompetencia política y división social

Un pueblo traicionado

The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only the definitive history of Spain from 1876 to 2016, but also an absorbing narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that all democracies have faced in the modern world. As A People Betrayed demonstrates, Spain's decrepit political system led to defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and cost Spain the last of its major colonies. Paul Preston shows how the humiliation and economic degradation following the loss of empire brought forth a succession of feeble governments, culminating in the tragic Spanish Civil War and the rise of Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship. The first historical work to discuss the continuities of political unrest and national anxiety in Spain up to the present, this sweeping history illuminates the vicious political cycle that continues to create a stark gulf between the people and the elite political powers who rule over them.

A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1876-2018

A People Betrayed

"Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf. The author is one of these children, and in this book based on 150 interviews, he takes us to the place where Deaf and Hearing cultures meet.

Living Between Sound and Silence

Mother Father Deaf

La historia del siglo XX español contada por el eminente hispanista Paul Preston. Un pueblo traicionado es una historia contemporánea de España escrita por un historiador británico que ama este país y que lleva cincuenta años estudiando su pasado. Nuestra rica y trágica historia permite muchas aproximaciones; este libro no cae en interpretaciones paternalistas o excepcionalistas, pero sigue las deficiencias de la clase política española entre la restauración borbónica de 1874 en la figura de Alfonso XII y el comienzo del reinado de su tataranieto Felipe VI en 2014. El resultado es un recorrido completo y equilibrado que subraya inevitablemente cómo el progreso del país ha sido obstaculizado por la corrupción y la incompetencia política, y cómo esos dos factores han provocado en repetidas ocasiones el colapso de la cohesión social y la represión violenta por parte de las autoridades. Una historia que entrelaza los temas de la influencia del Ejército y de la Iglesia, el rechazo popular a las clases dirigentes, el amargo conflicto social, el atraso económico y las tensiones territoriales, y que los sitúa en su contexto internacional. Así pasamos de la desesperación de la crisis de 1898 a momentos de optimismo y progreso en que la realidad social lograba actuar sobre el poder político, hasta llegar a la situación actual, de un pesimismo similar al de finales del siglo XIX. Los pueblos que no conocen su historia están condenados a repetirla, por eso este libro es de lectura obligatoria.

España de 1874 a nuestros días. Corrupción, incompetencia política y división social

Last Days of the Spanish Republic

odio y exterminio en la Guerra Civil  y después

El holocaust español

Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge, Revised and Expanded Edition

The Spanish Civil War

La guerra civil espanyola

Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

Spanish Holocaust

Traces the life of the controversial Spanish general and dictator, and takes a critical look at his impact on Spanish history

A Biography

Franco

Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.

The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco's Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work by Paul Preston, the world's foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.

Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-century Spain

The Spanish Holocaust

José Pablo García

Quatre-vingts ans après le coup d'Etat du général Franco, le dessinateur José Pablo García adapte le livre de Paul Preston, La guerre civile espagnole, au format bande dessinée. Cet ouvrage de Paul Preston, historien britannique mondialement reconnu, est l'un des textes de référence sur le conflit qui a ravagé l'Espagne entre 1936 et 1939 et qui a marqué le reste du XXe siècle. En reconstituant le réseau complexe des confrontations militaires avec précision et lucidité, cette bande dessinée constitue un ouvrage essentiel pour aborder la violente réalité vécue par ce pays. Preston nous offre une histoire en images qui vise à transmettre aux nouvelles générations l'histoire commune de cette tragédie collective, mais surtout à aider à préserver la mémoire de ce qui est arrivé en cette veille de la Seconde guerre mondiale.

La guerre civile espagnole

The Concise History of the Spanish Civil War is a full-blooded account of this pivotal period in 20th century European history. Paul Preston recounts the struggles of the war, analysing the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone.

A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War

Two would be deeply traumatised by their experiences in the front line. The shadow of the Spanish Civil War would hang over the rest of all their lives."--BOOK JACKET.

Four Women of Spain

Doves of War

Ann L. Mackenzie

L. Mackenzie

There can be little doubting the significance of the Spanish Civil War, both as 'the last great cause' and as a defining moment on the road to the Second World War. In Spain, Mussolini and Hitler drew together in the Rome-Berlin Axis as they witnessed the pusillanimity of the democratic powers. This extensive collection of new research by an international team of scholars engages with the two central facts about the Spanish Civil War: in its origins, it was a series of Spanish social wars; and in its course and outcome, it was an episode in a greater European Civil War that ended in 1945. Uniquely focusing on the Spanish and international reasons for the ultimate defeat of the Second Republic, the chapters of this book show how, for three years, the Republic was besieged from without and from within: from outside, by the forces of international Fascism and their unwitting accomplices among the democratic states; and, from inside, by the forces of the extreme Left whose members put their own revolutionary ambitions before the effort to build a centralized war effort.

Civil War in Spain 1936-1939

The Republic Besieged

Tricked by the promise of a scholarship to study in America, the pretty young Ju-Won is taken from her home in South Korea to Portland, Oregon. The manager of an illegal massage parlor, the Lucky Flower, expects her to give ‘happy endings’ to customers. With no lodging or money, and in debt, Ju-Won becomes a masseuse and sex worker at Lucky Flower. During a sexual encounter with a corrupt policeman she calls Nasty Eyes, she finds herself aroused when placed in bondage and dominated. She later enters into a submissive relationship with a wealthy real estate broker who buys Ju-Won’s freedom only to indulge in his own fetish of watching her give pleasure to multiple men. She performs sex acts for her Dom’s pleasure and profit before he abandons her at Lucky Flower. When Nasty Eyes rescues her from a police raid, she ends up with Dr Kang, a kindly psychiatrist, who offers her a conventional life. But is that what she really wants? Will Ju-Won finally find her own happy ending?

The Story of Ju-Won

This classic text is made newly available in a substantially revised and updated second edition.

Coming of the Spanish Civil War

It’s 2087. When Emily Williams, a good-hearted and attractive woman, is told to report to the CEO’s office for her exit interview, rather than fire her, Mr. Miller, CEO of a tech firm specializing in artificial intelligence, offers Emily a job as his personal secretary. Oddly, she’s been having indecent sexual thoughts about the CEO. Now, suddenly, her sexual fantasies are becoming a reality! With the aid of an Obedience Serum, Emily becomes Mr. Miller’s mistress and a sexual plaything for the company. She’s renamed Pretty Tits, and engages in repeated oral, anal and vaginal sex, while subdued by a training collar and trapped within the offices of DMI. She’s soon the most technologically advanced trans-human sex bot on the market, with her sexual favors freely given for the paying guests of The Experiment, an Adult Entertainment Resort. As her awareness grows, Emily develops human feelings for two human staff members, Mr. V, the domineering Head of Security and Dr. Richard Levinson, the shy and sensitive Chief Technology Officer. But when an experiment goes awry, Emily feels betrayed by the man she loves and makes plans for her escape.

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