Of course, since I couldn’t choose my own textbook, I ended up with a profoundly pro-Franco textbook ordered by our former professor who had been, of all the bizarre things, a Catholic priest in Spain during Franco. The 500-page book contains exactly 7 pages on the Spanish Civil War, dedicated, for the most part, to “the atrocities perpetrated by the Reds.”
The chapter on Franco is all about Franco’s wisdom in organizing the country’s international relations and his crucial labor of restoring the innate religiosity of the Spaniards.
This will be a really fun course to teach.
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I suppose you will give many additional materials. 🙂
Actually, the textbook may provide an important lesson – seeing how not objective material may be. Some students probably tend to trust textbooks, some media and other written by experts materials. Seeing such example could make them more thoughtful and critical.
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Is it Cantarino’s?
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Wow, you are GOOD. 🙂 🙂
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He was my colleague at Ohio State. We would go through the book to found howlers. One of the benefits of the war was the increase in religious vocations, for example. The vertical unions promoted harmony between workers and bosses, etc…
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Yes, the vertical unions part had me hurling the book at the fireplace.
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Franco’s Catholic Spain was the site from which the imagination of Pedro Almodovar sprung. I think this text needs an addendum!
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First of all, Almodovar is nothing special. Second of all, following this line of reasoning we can start praising Hitler for the Holocaust that brought forth so much great art.
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