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Echoesfroma

Vanished World

The storyof a Spanish family in

turbulent times

M. Burnett

KEY SELLING POINTS

And easy to understand, unique book on Spanish history.
SetinSpaininthelatenineteenthcenturyandexploreshowpeople’slivesevolvedasSpainchangesfroma
poor, backward country to a modern, democratic state.
Authorhaslived inSpainformostof heradultlifeandtouchesonherdistinctiveexperiencesinSpain.

Thisis nottheSpainwhichhasdrawnhistorians,neitheris ittheSpainof manypeople’sdreams:theoliveand
citrusgrovesof theMediterranean,thebeaches,andwhite-washedvillages. This is thestoryof afamilyfrom
oneof manyvillagesinthepoormountainregionsastheylived throughthetroubledtimes of thelate
nineteenth and twentieth centuries which brought unrest, war and finally a long dictatorship lasting until
Franco’s death in 1975.

OnFranco’sdeaththeSpanishpeoplefacedanenormouschallenge;thewayforwardwouldnotbeeasy.How
couldtheycastoff theirtroubledpast?Whatwasit likeforaforeignerarriving inthecountryoverfortyyears
agoas Spainstruggledtofind itswayasamodernEuropeanstate?Anattemptedcoup d’état,terrorism,the
declining power of the church and vertiginous social changes affected everyone’s lives.

Spain today is a changed country, yet something of the turbulent past remains.

Echoes from a Vanished World is a thought-provoking and unique social history book on Spanish history from
the late nineteenth century during a particularly convulsive era.

M. Burnett haslived in Spain formost of heradultlifewhichhasgivenheradeepinsightintothecountry, its
history,anditspeople. Shehasafirst-classhonoursdegreeinhumanities(history)andhasworkedasa
teacher and translator for many years.

Publication Date: 28th October 2024 £10.99 ISBN: 9781836280309
Thema subject category: NHTB – Social and cultural history
paperback 198 x 129 mm 368 pp Portrait

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