Spain Transformed addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. This wide-ranging collection reassesses the dictatorship’s latter years by drawing on a wealth of new material and ideas, using an interdisciplinary approach.

Spain Transformed addresses a major gap in the historiography of modern Spain: the late Franco dictatorship. Although Spain took the leap from an agricultural to an industrial economy and underwent a social and cultural revolution in the 1960s and early 1970s, this period has until now received scant attention from scholars. Yet these sweeping changes are indispensible to explaining the dictatorship’s extraordinary longevity, the model transition to democracy following Franco’s death in 1975. and the peace and prosperity enjoyed by Spain ever since. This wide-ranging collection, which embraces topics such as tourism, the emergence of civil society, and the changing complexion of the regime itself, offers a far-reaching reassessment of this watershed period in 20th century Spanish history by presenting a wealth of new material and ideas. The interdisciplinary and comparative approach of Spain Transformed will appeal to students and specialists alike of modern Spain in particular and Europe in general.

Introduction
The Golden Age of Spanish Capitalism: Economic Growth without Political Freedom
Tourism and Political Change in Franco’s Spain
The Change in Mentalities during the late Franco Regime
How different was Spain? The late Franco Regime in International Context
Order, Progress, and Syndicalism? How the late Francoist Authorities saw Socio-economic Change
New Political Mentalities in the tardofranquismo
Associations and the Social Origins of the Transition during the Late Franco Regime
Cultural Diversity and the Development of a Pre-Democratic Civil Society in Spain
The Spanish Church: Change and Continuity
The Origins of Democratic Support in post-Franco Spain: Learning to be a Democrat under Authoritarian Rule?
The United States and Spain: From Franco to Juan Carlos
The Franco Dictatorship: A Bifurcated Regime?