Adrian Shubert

Insightful and accessible, A Social History of Modern Spain is the first comprehensive social history of modern Spain in any language. Adrian Shubert analyzes the social development of Spain since 1800. Meer

Bullfighting is largely perceived as either antiquated or barbarous, eliciting either romanticized images of a past era or disgust. But according to Adrian Shubert, what is most interesting and important about bullfighting is its history as the first commercialized sport in Western society. Meer

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This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines contemporary public history’s engagement with the Spanish Civil War. The chapters discuss the history and mission of the main institutional archives of the war, contemporary and forensic archaeology of the conflict, burial sites, the affordances of digital culture in the sphere of war memory, the teaching of the conflict in Spanish school curricula, and the place of war memory within human rights initiatives. Meer