Raymond Carr (HB@PB PRICE): The Curiosity of the Fox (LSE Studies in Spanish History) - Softcover

Gonzáles, Maria Jesús

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845197321 ISBN 13: 9781845197322

Publisher: Sussex Academic Press (UK), 2013

Synopsis

Raymond Carr pioneered a new way of looking at modern Spanish history, releasing Spaniards form the shackles of Romantic myth and allowing them to see their nation as a country like any other, rather than one set apart from the rest of Europe. Born in humble circumstances, he journeyed through a fascinating period in twentieth-century British history, vaulting the class barriers that were still very much in place in the England of his day and turning himself into an interested and acutely observant member of the exclusive and decadent world of the late aristocracy, even becoming a keen huntsman. Familiar with the intricate and secret highways and byways of Oxford, both as an undergraduate at Christ Church and, later, as a Fellow of All Souls and of New College, he eventually became Warden of St Antonys. Throughout his Oxford life, he met and befriended some of the most important, eccentric, and charismatic intellectual figures of the entire twentieth century. But he was also on first-name terms with aristocrats, prime ministers, artists, spies, the foremost U.S. players in the Cold War, and military leaders in Francoist Spain. This biography tells a story that is in some ways stranger than fiction. By tracing the various facets of Raymond Carrs life and personality as intellectual, traveller, social chameleon, academic mover and shaker, lover of politics, and unrepentant enquirer into anything and everything to do with life and human history the author builds a masterly picture of the society into which he was born, the politics and culture of a England that is now lost to us, and the work of one of Englands major Hispanists. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies

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Review:

Raymond Carr is a very important and also attractive figure in British academic life and nobody could have written a better biography than this one. This book not only brings an unusually interesting person to life, but fills a large gap in the literature the profound links between British academia, historical writing and our understanding of Spain. Professor Eric Hobsbawm

About the Author:

Maria Jesus Gonzalez teaches modern history at the University of Cantabria. An expert in the political history of the reign of Alfonso XIII, she is the author of Ciudadania y Accion: El conservadurismo maurista 1907-1923 and El universo conservador de Antonio Maura: Biografia y proyecto de Estado, which was short-listed for the 1998 Spanish National Essay Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press (UK)
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1845197321
• ISBN 13: 9781845197322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 520