Article: The Spanish Economy, From the Civil War to the European Community.

By Joseph Harrison. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 78. $27.95.)

One problem of modern Spanish history that has yet to receive a satisfactory explanation is the social and economic transformation that occurred during the waning years of General Franco's rule. Despite the endurance of a dictatorship, which was conceived as a brutal reaction to the reforms of the Second Republic and expressly inspired in a reactionary desire for the restoration of imperial-Catholic Spain, beginning in 1960 the country achieved rapid economic growth and social modernization. Centuries of failure were left behind, and the ground was paved for the democratic ...

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