Fear and Progress

Antonio Cazorla Sánchez is Associate Professor of History at Trent University. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on Franco's Spain.

• List of Figures. List of Plates.Note on Sources and Abbreviations.Glossary of Key Terms.Introduction: Ordinary Spaniards in Extraordinary Times.1. The Politics of Fear.Manipulating Fear.The Fruits of Terror.The Lost People and the New Country.Imposing Consent.Faking Politics.2. The Social Cost of the Dictatorship.From Famine to Misery.Surviving.The Humiliations of Misery.Autarky’s Long Agony.Failure to Educate.3. Migration.The End of the Peasantry.To the City.To Europe.Housing.From Immigrants to Neighbors.Left Behind.4. A Changing Society.The Altar and the Street.Morals.Becoming Consumers.Leisure.New Areas of Confusion.5. Roads to Citizenship.A Demobilized Society.Old Memories, New Expectations.The Risks of Peace.The Beginning of the End.Facing the Future.Notes.Bibliography.Index.

"A good solid history. ... The real-life stories of real-life people are presented and it is to these bread-and-butter issues that historians should be listening." (Reviews in History, April 2010)