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Article Title: Spain
Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published: 11 August 2019
URL: https://www.britannica.com/place/Spain
Access Date: August 16, 2019
Additional Reading General Works
Overviews of Spain include Adrian Shubert, The Land and People of Spain (1992); and Eric Solsten and Sandra W. Meditz, Spain: A Country Study, 2nd ed. (1990). Richard Carrington, The Mediterranean: Cradle of Western Culture (1971), discusses the evolution of the area’s geologic structures, flora, and fauna and surveys its history. Land
General information about Iberian geography appears in books about the physical geography of the Mediterranean area and of Europe, notably Russell King, Lindsay Proudfoot, and Bernard Smith (eds.), The Mediterranean: Environment and Society (1997), a general overview of the historical, environmental, geographical, and social features of the Mediterranean basin; Catherine Delano Smith (Catherine Delano-Smith), Western Mediterranean Europe: A Historical Geography of Italy, Spain, and Southern France Since the Neolithic (1979), a systematic approach to the historical aspects of environment, settlement, and economy; J.M. Houston, The Western Mediterranean World: An Introduction to Its Regional Landscapes, 3rd ed. (1971); and Clifford Embleton (ed.), Geomorphology of Europe (1984). Ricardo Méndez and Fernando Molinero, Geografía de España (1993), provides a general survey of the geography of Spain, with a focus on the environment and the economy. Manuel de Téran, L. Solé Sabarís, and J. Vilà Valentí (eds.), Geografía regional de España, 5th ed., rev. and updated (1987), is the most complete work on the subject. J.Ma. García Alvarado and J.A. Sotelo Navalpotro (eds.), La España de las autonomías (1999), surveys the Spanish autonomies (regions). J. Vilà Valentí, La Península ibérica (1968, reprinted 1983), gives a good concise description of the country. Adolf Schulten, Geographie des antiken Spanien, 2nd ed. (1974), vol. 1 of Iberische Landeskunde, is an exhaustive scholarly work on the geography of the Iberian Peninsula in ancient times. Antonio Gilman, John B. Thornes, and Stephen Wise, Land-Use and Prehistory in South-East Spain (1985), focuses on an earlier period. Aguilar, S.A. de Ediciones, Atlas gráfico de España, 3rd ed. (1984), is a regional approach, with clear, large-scale maps accompanied by short texts in Spanish on a variety of aspects. Catherine Delano Smith People
Adrian Shubert, A Social History of Modern Spain (1990, reprinted 1992), examines Spanish society in the 19th and 20th centuries. John Hooper, The New Spaniards, new and rev. ed. (1995), is an entertaining look at the people by a British journalist. An interesting and useful survey of attitudes and opinions for the period of the democratic transition is Francisco Murillo Ferrol et al., Informe sociológico sobre el cambio social en España, 1975/1983 (1983). Carmen Martín Gaite, Usos amorosos de la postguerra Española (1987, reissued 1997), is a superb essay by a novelist on relations between the sexes in the 1940s and ’50s. Miguel Juárez, V informe sociológico sobre la situación social en España: sociedad para todos en el año 2000, 2 vol. (1994), offers a comprehensive review of Spanish social trends. Rafael Puyol (ed.), Dinámica de la población en España: cambios demográficos en último cuarto del siglo XX (1997), provides a survey of the demography of Spain. Economy
William Chislett, Spain (1992), provides a brief analysis of the Spanish economy with reference to its main regions. Joseph Harrison, An Economic History of Modern Spain (1978), is a concise overview. Reviews of the economic history of the 19th and early 20th centuries include Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz (ed.), The Economic Modernization of Spain, 1830–1930 (1987; originally published in Spanish, 1985); and Jordi Nadal, “The Failure of the Industrial Revolution in Spain, 1830–1914,” pp. 532–626 in Carlo M. Cipolla (ed.), The Emergence of Industrial Societies (1973, reissued 1976), vol. 4 of The Fontana Economic History of Europe. More-detailed coverage of 20th-century developments appears in Sima Lieberman, The Contemporary Spanish Economy: A Historical Perspective (1982); and José Luis García Delgado et al., España, economía, ante el siglo XXI (1999). Keith G. Salmon, The Modern Spanish Economy: Transformation and Integration into Europe (1991, reissued 1995), provides a sectoral analysis of Spanish economy at the end of the 20th century. Government and society