Juan Francisco Fuentes Aragonés (
Barcelona
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, 1955) is a Spanish historian specialized in contemporary history.
Born in 1955 in
Barcelona
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, he is professor at the
Complutense University of Madrid
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. His works cover contemporary history and socialism in Spain, including biographies of
José Marchena
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In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...
,
Francisco Largo Caballero,
Luis Araquistáin
Luis Araquistáin Quevedo (Bárcena de Pie de Concha, Cantabria, Spain, 1886 – Geneva, Switzerland, 1959) was a Spanish politician and writer. Member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from a young age, he belonged to the circl ...
, and
Adolfo Suárez. He collaborated with Javier Fernández Sebastián, with whom he wrote ''Historia del periodismo español'' and ''Diccionario político y social del siglo XX español''.
Works
*''José Marchena: biografía política e intelectual'' (Crítica, 1989)
*(Coauthor: Javier Fernández Sebastián) ''Historia del periodismo español. Prensa, política y opinión pública en la España contemporánea (Editorial Síntesis, 1997)''
*''Luis Araquistáin y el socialismo español en el exilio (1939-1959)'' (Biblioteca Nueva, 2002).
*''Largo Caballero: el Lenin español'' (Síntesis, 2005)
*''El fin del Antiguo Régimen (1808-1868). Política y sociedad'' (Síntesis, 2007)
*''Adolfo Suárez: biografía política'' (Editorial Planeta, 2011)
*''Con el rey y contra el rey. Los socialistas y la Monarquía'' (La Esfera, 2016)
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1955 births
People from Barcelona
Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid
Historians of the Hispanic world
Contemporary historians