“With this book Josep Fontana appears as a more documented and ambitious historian than Eric Hobsbwam, and so splendid, innovative and thought-provoking as the wasted Tony Judt. This monumental work confirms that Josep Fontana is a world-wide well known historian.”
——Borja de Riquer
El País

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A reference work to understand all the historical events that happened after the Second World War, especially the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union and the American intervention.

Josep Fontana

Josep Fontana (Barcelona, 1931), is considered the greatest authority among the Spanish historians. He has been professor of Economic History in the University of Barcelona and held the History chair at the University of Valencia and Autonomus University of Barcelona. He was the founder and director of the Jaume Vicens Vives History Institute in the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) until his retirement in 2001. He was awarded professor Honoris Causa by the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). Also, he has been visiting professor in universities of Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brasil, Chile and Argentina, there he received the Honoris Causa degree from the National University of Comahue. He has written around thirty books about historical research, his works have been translated to many languages. One of his most important titles, Europe in Front of a Mirror (Crítica, 1994) was translated into fifteen languages including the Japanese. He dedicated the last fifteen years to the research and writing of For the sake of the Empire.