Is Spain Different?: A Comparative Look at the 19th and 20th Centuries

For the country of Spain, the slogan that launched the tourist industry in the 1960s, "Spain is different," has come to haunt historians. Since then, much effort and energy have been expended in endeavoring to show that Spain has not been 'different,' but is actually 'normal.' Still, many of the defining features of the Spain's past - the civil wars, the weak liberalism, the Franco dictatorship - are taken as evidence of its distinctiveness. A related problem is that few historians have act...