Paul Preston

Una biografía concisa, accesible y actualizada de Francisco Franco (1892-1975).

Biographies of some of the most prominent correspondents who covered the Spanish Civil War.

"In Juan Carlos, Paul Preston explores the history of twentieth-century Spain through the lens of the royal who would play the key role in Spain's eventual transition to democracy." "Born in 1938, Juan Carlos found himself even as a boy at the center of an epic story, and his life is so deeply entwined with that of Spain's that there is often little distinction between his personal history and his country's. At age seven, he had already been suggested as a possible heir to Francisco Franco. When he was ten, from his Portuguese exile, his father, Don Juan, handed him over to Franco, who educated him according to the strictest authoritarian traditions, thereby hoping to ensure the survival of his dictatorship after his death." "As Juan Carlos grew up, ever greater friction between his father and Franco made him realize that the dictator would never allow his father to be king. The prince became the family's only hope for return to the throne. Juan Carlos's closeness to Caudillo - and their apparent mutual fondness - resulted in widespread suspicion that he would continue to uphold Falangist and authoritarian structures after he came to power. That he made the courageous and personally dangerous decision to pursue democracy testifies to his profound underlying loyalty to his father and to Spain's wider interests."--Jacket.

By examining the lives of four women caught up in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-9, Professor Preston casts a fresh light on the bitter struggle between the Nationalist rebels and the defenders of the legal, democratic Republic, and also on the domestic faction fights that bedevilled each side.

|This book is essential reading for whoever wants to understand Spain today and its protagonists, both individual and collective. In the best British tradition, recent politics here becomes history.' - TLS.

En los últimos años, han aparecido muchos libros periodísticos sobre la derecha golpista y también muchos estudios académicos sobre la derecha autoritaria de los años treinta. Lo que nunca se ha hecho es relacionar los dos fenómenos. Este libro ofrece una serie de trabajos de Paul Preston dedicados a analizar la naturaleza de la derecha reaccionaria y su disposición a recurrir al golpismo en contra de la voluntad popular (1936, 1981). Tras una reconstrucción de la génesis de la derecha antes de 1931, pasa a analizar las distintas corrientes durante la República, “los legalistas” de la CEDA y “los catastrofistas” de Renovación Española, los reaccionarios de la Comunión Tradicionalista, y los jóvenes fascistas de Falange Española. Este libro nos brinda a la vez una visión de las contradicciones entre el falangismo de Dionisio Ridruejo y el del búnker, un retrato de los papeles jugados por la suerte y la paciencia en la carrera del General Franco y una explicación lúcida de los orígenes del golpismo del 23-F. En definitiva, un anglosajón hispanófilo nos presenta una visión original y clara de los lazos entre el autoritarismo conservador y la violencia de la extrema derecha.

`This collection of essays constitutes a magnificent monument to recent scholarship on the Second Republic and the Civil War. It is indispensable for a full understanding of the period.' - Raymond Carr

The breakdown of democracy in Spain in the 1930s resulted in a torrent of political and military violence. In this thoroughly revised edition of his classic text, Paul Preston provides a deeply disturbing explanation of the democratic collapse, coherently and excitingly outlining the social and economic background. Since the first edition of this book was completed more than fifteen years ago, archives have been opened up, the diaries, letters and memoirs of major protagonists have been published and there have been innumerable studies of the politics of the Republic, of parties, unions, elections and social conflict, national and provincial. This new edition updates the original text as exhaustively as possible to take account of the new material.

An account of the Spanish civil war which portrays the struggles of the war, as well as discussing the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, the emergence of brutal dictatorship on the nationalist side and the extent to which the Spanish war prefigured World War II.

The author explores male friendships, including those between brothers, fathers and sons, soldiers and more.

"Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf, forever balancing the worlds of sound and silence, as a sense of self and family forms. Paul Preston is one of these children, and in this book he takes us to the place where Deaf and Hearing cultures meet, where families like his own embody the conflicts and resolutions of two often opposing world views. Based on one hundred and fifty interviews with adult hearing children of deaf parents throughout the United States, Mother Father Deaf is rich in anecdote and analysis, remarkable for its insights into a family life normally closed to outsiders. Unlike others who have studied this community, focusing on pathology and family dysfunction, Preston lets a picture of hearing life among deaf parents emerge from the personal stories of those who have lived it. As they describe their family histories, their childhood memories, their sense of themselves as adults, and their life choices, these men and women chart the sometimes difficult middle ground between spoken and signed language, sameness and otherness, the stigmatizing and the stigmatized. Their stories challenge many of mainstream society's common myths and beliefs about hearing and deafness and illustrate the drama of belonging and being different as it unfolds within the self. In light of these personal narratives. Preston examines the process of assimilation and cultural affiliation among a population whose lives incorporate the paradox of being culturally "Deaf" yet functionally hearing. His book explores the culturally relative nature of families and the assumptions and expectations that all of us hold to be not only important but vital to our well-being as individuals and as a society.

This is the story of an avoidable humanitarian tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more.

The authoritative account of Casado's coup and the last months of the Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston, today's leading Hispanist.

Biografía de Constancia de la Mora Maura.