Feeling the urgency of the moment, Josep Fontana has written a necessary book about the present world circumstances: the future is a strange country. His diagnosis is so clarifying as disturbing.
——Vladimir López.
(history researcher in Autonomus University of Barcelona)

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In this book professor Fontana continues with the analysis of historical events that shaped our daily live, especially the economic crisis and its social consequences, which the author summarize in two repeated patterns: privatization of politics and the creation of a repressive state whose mission is to silence any possible rebellion.

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 in 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. Future Is a Strange Country is his second book with Pasado&Presente.