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Making Democracy in Spain: Grass-Roots Struggle in the South, 1955-1975

By Joe Foweraker

Book information

Year
1989
ISBN
9780521354066, 9780511528989, 0521522811, 0521354064, 0511528981, 9780521522816
LCC
DP270 .F65 1989
Open Library ID
OL2060343M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2091855 bytes)
Pages
301\301
Topic
History
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book explores the making of democracy in Spain during the twenty long years before the death of Franco. The author seeks out the beginnings of democratic struggle at the grassroots of civil society, recounting the story of the countless unsung heroes who prepared the political terrain of this transition. The story suggests that it was social needs and economic demands that spawned individual discontent and political dissent, but that the struggle itself required continual political organization and calculation. The author explores the personal networks and political strategies that sustained the struggle, and reveals that their contribution to the making of democracy was often contradictory and always piecemeal. By continually connecting grassroots political activity at the local level to the national trajectory of organized democratic struggle, the author demonstrates in detail the popular contribution to democratic process in Franco's Spain.

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