- Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (26 Jan 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140131914
- ISBN-13: 978-0140131918
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 506,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Unputdownable . . . A must for anyone . . . who wants to know what Spain is really like. ("New Statesman", London)
Hooper . . . not only knows where Spain has been in recent decades and centuries, but he also has an impressively authoritative view of where exactly it is today and where it is headed. ("The Washington Post")
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Hooper . . . not only knows where Spain has been in recent decades and centuries, but he also has an impressively authoritative view of where exactly it is today and where it is headed. ("The Washington Post")
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Over 30 million foreigners travel to Spain every year - more than any other country, yet all but a handful see little of the country besides the holiday costas. This book describes the real Spain that has emerged since the death of Franco, a country of immense industrial and cultural creativity, of police trade unions and wife-swapping bars, a federal monarchy with a tax-paying king, a welfare state in which three-quarters of the unemployed do not qualify for assistance. Unlike many books on Spain, this book eschews politics to focus on the society and how it functions. The book won the Allen Lane Award.
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73 of 74 people found the following review helpful
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Hooper has managed to paint, inside five hundred colourless pages of text, a magnificent picture of Spain's vivacity, culture and history. As a student of Spanish, this is one of the best general accounts of Spain that I have read. Not only does it contain detailed information about every possible aspect of Spanish life, culture, history or geography, but Hooper manages to present the material in a logical and intriguing manner. Indeed, apart from being readable from cover to cover - although you may wish to set aside a few weeks for this task - the book can be consulted via an index as a type of "Encyclopedia of Spain." Useful explanatory footnotes are also provided throughout.
I would thoroughly recommend this as a general history of Spain, a general - but detailed - introduction to Spain and her ways, for a hispanophile, or anyone who wishes to discover "the real Spain" in the comfort of their own home.
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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I read this book before going for a year to Spain. I read it again when I returned and couldn't believe the accuracy of it. While Hooper offers critical analysis of the country, it is nevertheless obvious that this is a place he feels deep affection for. That is what makes it special.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Throw in a history book, a nice novel and an eye-witness travel guide and you get Hooper's "The New Spaniards". It is incredibly user-friendly in the sense that Hooper makes the book incredibly accessible. If you are the idle type of Spanish student, for instance, who finds reading for your course a drag, then this is the kind of book for you. By the end of the book you will have found yourself asking: "was I really studying or was that a nice cushy novel I was reading?". You will have soaked up a wealth of information without even noticing it!
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I loved the first edition and bought the latest edition for a friend. Now, looking to upload it to my Kindle, it costs more. Why?
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Very detailed and thus not a read for someone just wanting to get an overview of Spanish facts / lifestyle
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This is one of the best insights to Europe's most popular holiday destination. It provides an insight of how Spain has progressed since Franco's death in 1975
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