'Patricia A. Schechter has written a wonderful story of what we often call modernization. Focusing on a small Andalusian town, Pueblonuevo (Córdoba), she aptly explains how the arrival of “progress” brought with it the emergence of new social groups, identities, and conflicts that deepened until the tragic outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. This is local history at its best' - Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Professor of History, Trent University, Canada.‘Patricia A. Schechter has produced an engaging and thought-provoking biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a small mining settlement located north of Córdoba. Her social history serves to explore the pressures of industrial development and worker mobilization in a small Andalusian town from the time of its emergence as a mining camp seeking municipal status to the end of the Civil War. The book figures as one title in Routledge’s Microhistories series dedicated to uncovering macrohistorical themes at work in small-scale contexts. As the author explains, “Pueblonuevo is a case study in the global as local”’ - Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Volume 49:1.
