The Modern Spain Sourcebook: A Cultural History From 1600 To The Present

Review “What makes this sourcebook stand out is its seamless incorporation of gender history throughout. There is much to like about this book … Its structure is flexible for classroom use, and it does meet the authors’ goals of bringing historical context to cultural studies’ students and cultural works to history students.” – European History Quarterly Product Description Incorporating a wide range of visual and translated written sources, The Modern Spain Sourcebook documents Spain's history from the Enlightenment to the present.The book is thematically arranged and includes six key primary sources on ten significant areas of Spanish history, including the arts, work, education, religion, politics, sexuality and empire. As well as the book's overarching introduction, there are theme-specific introductions and vital historical context sections provided for the sources that are presented. There are also useful suggested analytical questions and helpful web link lists included throughout.The Modern Spain Sourcebook covers political and economic history, but moves beyond this to provide a more complete picture of Spanish history through the sources selected with gender history, social history and cultural history coming to the fore. This is a crucial text containing a vital trove of primary material for all students of Spain and its history. About the Author Aurora G. Morcillo is Professor of History at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of Cultural and Social Memory of the Spanish Civil War: Realms of Oblivion (2014), The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic (2010) and True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco Spain (2000).María Asunción Gómez is Professor of Spanish at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of La madre muerta: El mito matricida en la literatura y el cine españoles (2016) and Del escenario a la pantalla: La adaptación cinematográfica del teatro español (2000), and the co-editor, along with Santiago Juan-Navarro and Phyllis Zatlin, of History and Myth of the Mad Queen: Modern Representations of Juana of Castile (2008).Paula De La Cruz-Fernández is instructor in history, research historian, and digital archivist. José Manuel Morcillo-Gómez is Visiting Instructor in Spanish at the University of Qingdao, China. He is a PhD Candidate in Spanish at Florida International University, USA.