In Hiding - The Life of Manuel Cortes

Informationen zum Autor Ronald Fraser  (1930 - 2012) was the leading oral historian of twentieth-century Spain. He is the author of several books, including In Hiding, In Search of a Past , Blood of Spain and Napoleon's Cursed War . Klappentext In the mountain of books about that war there cannot be another so brief and yet so complete, so unguarded and yet so subtle, so movingly human as this. Arthur Miller, The New York Times Zusammenfassung Manuel Cortes was a Socialist Party member! an activist in the peasant reform movement and an organizer in the farm workers' unionization struggles. He also became mayor of Malaga! where he was caught up in the ferment of revolutionary Spain in the late 1930s. This title supplements Cortes' ordeal.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Fraser, Fraser Ronald
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2010
• EAN: 9781844675968
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-596-8
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, Spain, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political leaders & leadership, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, HISTORY / Europe / Spain