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John Hooper
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Pages: 480 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0141016094
Pub: Penguin Books Ltd
Pub date: 2006-10-26
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7702
Reader Reviews:
A good reading (4/4 people found this helpful)
This book is an excellent review of the current Spanish reality. Some chapters could be seen as very standard in the way the author analyzes the theme but this is because most of the book is a really good and well documented analysis of the country and its people. Yet I miss in this edition the critical apparatus and bibiography, I highly recommend it to anyone that really wants to understand the Spaniards' way of thinking and to get a hint of one of such a big and important country in the European history.
Just how new is "The new Spaniards"? (22/25 people found this helpful)
Yes, definitely the one of the best books on Spain from the post-Franco era. But 11 years have now passed since it was published and Spain is a country which is hurtling forwards at breakneck speed. It has swung politically from left to right to left again leaving a whole "new" generation unaccounted for - the effects of mass immigration, 8 years of Aznar's centralist bullying, its involvement in the invasion of Iraq, the Madrid bombings, the Catalan statute.........It's time for an update.
What a brilliant book! (14/16 people found this helpful)
Read 'The Spaniards' and loved it. Got 'The New Spaniards' when it came out and loved it too. A brilliantly readable insight into the modern history and culture of the most vibrant and exciting country in Europe. Cuts through all the stereotypes to provide an accurate portrait of the modern nation.
Time for the 'Even Newer Spaniards' Mr Hooper please.
A must if you are a foreigner in Spain! (10/13 people found this helpful)
The book offers many answers to the questions all of us foreigners in Spain have: How can the 2 Spains, the traditional and the modern coexist? How has the Franco era influenced modern Spain? Why did Franco last so long? What's the problem with Basques and Catalans?
And all that seen with a lot of humour from an objective point of you.
The New Spain (11/13 people found this helpful)
Far away from the 'flamenco' culture, the Spanish Inquisition or the obscure years of Franco's era, John Cooper unveils unexpected and colorful aspects of the so-called New Spaniards.
Sociology, the Media or the still heated debate about the Catalans and the Basques are some of the discussion lines the readers can follow.
An attention-grasping, informative and enjoable book that any hispanist or Spain lover cannot miss.
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