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Spansk succéroman om vänskap och försoning.Två kvinnor som en gång var bästa väninnor är nu bittra fiender. Två familjer som varit nära sammanflätade befinner sig nu på varsin sida av en avgrund. En liten by där grannsämja och gemenskap rådit har slitits itu av våld. Är det möjligt att försonas och kan man någonsin glömma?Samma dag som separatistorganisationen ETA meddelar att de lägger ner sina vapen bestämmer sig änkan Bittori för att återvända till byn där hon och hennes man bodde innan han mördades av separatisterna. Men kommer hon att kunna leva sida vid sida med dem som trakasserade och förstörde hennes familj? Och kommer hon någonsin att få svar på frågan om vem personen var som mördade hennes man?Med den mörka baskiska nationalismen som fond skildrar Fernando Aramburu en plats där terror i åratal har påverkat livet och där såren efter våldet fortfarande är vidöppna.

Beginning with the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1875 and ending with the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, this book explores the intersection of education and nationalism in Spain. Based on a broad range of archival and published sources, including parliamentary and ministerial records, pedagogical treatises and journals, teachers'' manuals, memoirs, and a sample of over two hundred primary and secondary school textbooks, the study examines ideological and political conflict among groups of elites seeking to shape popular understanding of national history and identity through the schools, both public and private. A burgeoning literature on European nationalisms has posited that educational systems in general, and an instrumentalized version of national history in particular, have contributed decisively to the articulation and transmission of nationalist ideologies. The Spanish case reveals a different dynamic. In Spain, a chronically weak state, a divided and largely undemocratic political class, and an increasingly polarized social and political climate impeded the construction of an effective system of national education and the emergence of a consensus on the shape and meaning of the Spanish national past. This in turn contributed to one of the most striking features of modern Spanish political and cultural life--the absence of a strong sense of Spanish, as opposed to local or regional, identity. Scholars with interests in modern European cultural politics, processes of state consolidation, nationalism, and the history of education will find this book essential reading.

Martínez Peláez asserts that “the coffee dictatorships were the full and radical realization of criollo notions of the patria.” This patria, or homeland, was one that criollos had wrested from Spaniards in the name of independence and taken control of based on claims of liberal reform. He contends that since labor is needed to make land productive, the exploitation of labor, particularly Indian labor, was a necessary complement to criollo appropriation. His depiction of colonial reality is bleak, and his portrayal of Spanish and criollo behavior toward Indians unrelenting in its emphasis on cruelty and oppression. Martínez Peláez felt that the grim past he documented surfaces each day in an equally grim present, and that confronting the past is a necessary step in any effort to improve Guatemala’s woes. An extensive introduction situates La Patria del Criollo in historical context and relates it to contemporary issues and debates.