“Democracy is a system of government that requires tragic societal consensus, consensus can be dissipated due to economic factors such as runaway inflation, or otherwise, as the issue of regionalism”, thought and declared the British historian and Hispanist Raymond Carr, who died yesterday at age 96.
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences in 1999, his honeymoon in Torremolinos changed their interests historian. Initially devoted to study Sweden and contact with Spain so impressed by the “abject poverty” turned-on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime.
“His work on the history of Spain in the nineteenth and twentieth renewed studies of contemporary modernization and have become research models, “argued the jury of the Prince of Asturias prize to give distinction.
Raymond Carr was born in 1919 in Bath, UK. He taught at the prestigious University of Oxford. Among his major works on the history of Spain highlights Spain 1808-1975, Studies on the Republic and the Spanish Civil War and History of Spain.
He had received, among other awards, the Cross of Alfonso X El Wise and the Mirror Award. .
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