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The New Spaniards | 
 enlarge | Author: John Hooper
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £10.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 14085
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0141016094
Dewey Decimal Number: 946
EAN: 9780141016092
ASIN: 0141016094
Publication Date: October 26, 2006
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Perfectly positioned work May 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a way to explore Spain from within your own house then this book is key. It provides a surprisingly in depth, if a little mistake-ridden (publishing deadline closed in too quickly?) work full of incredible detail, although never boring. It takes you through most aspects of Spanish life from the Catalans to the PP. A great buy, if you're really interested, but not ideal to 'dip' into.
A good reading June 4, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review 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"? March 29, 2006
25 out of 28 found this review 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! October 7, 2004
16 out of 18 found this review 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! April 10, 2003
11 out of 14 found this review 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.
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