Amazon.com description: Product Description: Spain has witnessed the most remarkable economic, social and political transformation of any West European country over the past 25 years. During this time it has emerged from the shadow of Franco's dictatorship to its new status as a major EU country. This volume, the first book on the human geography of the new Spain, starts by placing Spain within the new politidcal and econnomic context of Europe and the traces Spain's own political evolution from dictatorship to democracy and the autonomous regions. Subsequent chapters deal with demography, the agricultural crisis, industrial restructuring, the growth of the service economy, mass tourism , the welfare state, transport and urban systems. The book concludes with and intergrated summary of the constituent elements of the new geography of Spain, set within the contexst of continuing and emerging regional disequelibria in Spain and with reference to Spain's position on the dynamidc semi-periphery of Europe.