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An insightful portrait of Spain in the twenty-first century explores a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary preoccupations exist side by side and focuses on the issues that affect ordinary Spaniards, from housing to gambling, from changing sexual mores to rising crime rates. Reprint.
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A masterly portrait of contemporary Spain?fully revised, expanded, and updatedModern-day Spain is a country changing at bewildering speed. In less than half a century, a predominantly rural society has been transformed into a mainly urban one. A dictatorship has become a democracy. A once-repressed society is being spoken of as a future ?Sweden of the Mediterranean.? John Hooper?s outstanding portrayal of the new Spanish society explores the causes behind these changes, from crime to education, gambling to changing sexual mores. This new, up-to-date edition is the essential guide to understanding twenty-first-century Spain: a land of paradox, progress, and social change.
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