by Stanley G. Payne · Espasa Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423922642
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«Franco, el perfil de la historia» is the historical biography by Stanley G. Payne, published by Espasa Calpe in paperback (280 pages, in Spanish).
Published on the centenary of Franco's birth, this biography traces the profile of the man, the soldier and the politician who ruled Spain for almost forty years. Payne analyzes his room for maneuver and his role in history, and closes with an assessment of his place in Spain and in the contemporary world.
Work published in 1992 in the Biografías Espasa collection, in its Nuestro tiempo series; translated from English by Carlos Caranci and includes a bibliography.
For readers interested in the contemporary history of Spain and in the figure of Franco from an academic perspective.
Stanley G. Payne is an American academic and historian, specialized in the history of modern Spain and European fascist movements at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He retired from full-time teaching in 2004 and is currently Professor Emeritus at its Department of History. His works on the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist period received various estimates: while by the 1980s he had earned the reputation of "America's most prolific historian of Spain", in the 21st century his later works became known for their "revisionist" approach, and received criticism from other historians as overly benevolent towards Falangism and for allegedly spreading Francoist narratives. However, other historians have praised Payne's work in the 21st century. In 2018, Julius Ruiz praised Payne's 2017 work Alcala Zamora and the Failure of the Spanish Republic.
