Editor(s): Andrea Tappi, Javier Tébar Hurtado
The Resistance in Italy and the Post-Franco Transition of the 1970s in Spain constitute two fundamental junctures in the history of their respective countries. Eighty years after the Liberation from Nazi-fascism and fifty years after the death of Francisco Franco, they still attract the attention of historians and are the subject of frequent references in public and institutional discourse, which nevertheless tends to overlook their potentially divisive elements and elevates them to solid foundation myths, useful for sustaining the cornerstones of reassuring collective identities. The school is the most important place where such narratives take shape and where it is possible, as well as a duty, to work on analysing and deconstructing them, restoring to history the sense of its complexity and contributing to the formation of an aware citizenship. Focusing on the Resistance and the Spanish Transition, the book investigates how the public and historiographical debate is reworked in the current Italian and Spanish school context and whether a methodologically grounded critical approach is really applied to the study of history.
Publisher: Carocci
Year: 2025
