Preface to the Internet Edition[v]

Preface[v]
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Chapter One: After Twenty-Five Years of Peace [1]
Chapter Two: Historical Explanations of Contemporary Spain[28]
Chapter Three: The Making of Spain [35]
Chapter Four: Enlightened Despotism and the Origin of Contemporary Spain[50]
Chapter Five: The French Explosion and the Birth of Political Controversy[65]
Chapter Six: The Search for a New Order [77]
Chapter Seven: The Entrenchment of the New Oligarchy[87]
Chapter Eight: The Opposition to the Established Order: Revolutionary Period[99]
Chapter Nine: The Opposition to the Established Order: Evolutionary Period[113]
Chapter Ten: The End of the Order and the Gentle Dictatorship[133]
Chapter Eleven: The Second Republic [154]
Chapter Twelve: Spain Splits in Two [173]
Chapter Thirteen: Civil War [188]
Chapter Fourteen: Spain Under Franco: Repression [211]
Chapter Fifteen: Spain Under Franco: Transformation [237]
Chapter Sixteen: Conclusion [262]

Suggested Readings [289]
Index [303]

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University of California Press edition. These numbers have been inserted into the text in bold type, set
off in brackets, as in [83].