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0871408686 rar 0871408686 rar Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Prestons magisterial history of modern Spain. The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history of modern Spain but also a compelling narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that virtually all democracies have faced in the modern world. Whereas so many twentieth-century Spanish histories begin with Franco and the devastating Civil War, Paul Prestons magisterial work begins in the late nineteenth century with Spains collapse as a global power, especially reflected in its humiliating defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and its loss of colonial territory. Read more