{"product_id":"2026200014411-secondhand-franco-and-the-politics-of-spain","title":"Franco And The Politics Of Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in twentieth-century European history cast as long and dark a shadow as Francisco Franco, the military general who seized power in Spain through a brutal civil war and ruled as dictator for nearly four decades. Franco and the Politics of Spain by Edouard de Blaye is a penetrating political biography that chronicles the rise, consolidation, and long twilight of Franco's authoritarian regime — dissecting the machinery of repression, the balancing act between Falangists, monarchists, and the Catholic Church, and Spain's uneasy relationship with the wider world through the Cold War era. De Blaye presents a portrait of a man defined not by ideological passion but by a ruthless pragmatism, mapping how Franco deftly neutralised rivals and bent every institution of the Spanish state to his will.\n\nWritten with the authority of a seasoned political journalist, de Blaye's analysis illuminates the deeper currents of Spanish society — the regionalist tensions, the economic stagnation, and the creeping liberalisation of the 1960s — that would ultimately outlast the Caudillo himself. The work stands as an essential document for understanding how a military coup hardened into a decades-long autocracy, and what it left behind. For anyone seeking to understand how Spain arrived at its remarkable democratic transition, this is an indispensable — and deeply unsettling — starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216202801371,"sku":"2026200014411-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7a6e5580-3eb3-4435-a8aa-7261a3a5bd37.png?v=1788405263","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014411-secondhand-franco-and-the-politics-of-spain","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}