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Incorporating a wide range of visual and translated written sources, The Modern Spain Sourcebook documents Spain''s history from the Enlightenment to the present.The book is thematically arranged and includes six key primary sources on ten significant areas of Spanish history, including the arts, work, education, religion, politics, sexuality and empire. As well as the book''s overarching introduction, there are theme-specific introductions and vital historical context sections provided for the sources that are presented. There are also useful suggested analytical questions and helpful web link lists included throughout. The Modern Spain Sourcebook covers political and economic history, but moves beyond this to provide a more complete picture of Spanish history through the sources selected with gender history, social history and cultural history coming to the fore. This is a crucial text containing a vital trove of primary material for all students of Spain and its history.>
About the author
Aurora G. Morcillo was Professor of History at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of Cultural and Social Memory of the Spanish Civil War: Realms of Oblivion (2014), The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic (2010) and True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco Spain (2000). She sadly passed away in 2020.María Asunción Gómez is Professor of Spanish and Graduate Program Director at Florida International University, USA.Paula De La Cruz-Fernández is Postdoctoral Fellow in the History department at Florida International University, USA.José Manuel Morcillo-Gómez is a Spanish PhD Candidate at Florida International University, USA.
