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  • 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: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Ideal if you want to explore Spain from your armchair!, 14 May 2001
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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fabulous review of Spanish life, 21 Aug 2000
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A good reading, 4 Jun 2007
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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.
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