A Social History of Modern Spain

by Adrian Shubert

Softcover. Edge-worn covers with light scuffing and several surface scratches and small light abrasions. Spine is creased. Spine ends bumped. Leading corners a little worn. Light crease across lower inner corner of front cover and across corresponding area of first few pages of book. Pages clean and clear. Text sound and tight. AF

Genres: History, Spain

292 pages, Hardcover

First published November 8, 1990

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

[Andrew Daniels · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent work, but boy does it ever get bogged down and hard to read at parts. He likes to focus in on a few minute examples of people from time to time, and sometimes I find it dull.