Rethinking the History of Democracy in Spain by Antonio Herre... - 9781032525419

Rethinking the History of Democracy in SpainAuthor(s): Antonio Herrera, Francisco Acosta\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032525419, 978-1032525419\nSynopsis\nFocusing on the processes of political socialisation and democratisation that took place in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book brings together specialists who propose the need to rethink the contemporary history of democracy in Spain to build a new narrative.\n\nTo do so, the authors go down to the local level, where they are able to trace a political culture that forged the foundations of a process of political \""modernization\"" much more complex than what conventional historiography has conveyed, even though it was not always transferred institutionally to the national level. The idea of a rural Spain that was backward, apolitical, violent and unprepared for democracy gives way to a more interesting history which, while recogni.