Eduardo Barreiros and the recovery of Spain / Hugh Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Hugh, 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barreiros, Eduardo, 1919-1992.

Barreiros, Eduardo.

Barreiros Diesel--History.

Barreiros Diesel.

Motor vehicle industry--Spain--History--20th century.

Motor vehicle industry.

Industrialists--Spain--Biography.

Industrialists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 391 p. [29] p. of plates) ) ill., maps, plans.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A dramatic biography of the extraordinary Spanish industrialist and entrepreneur Eduardo Barreiros Born in an impoverished region of Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo Barreiros (1919-1992) rose to become an immensely successful entrepreneur and one of Spain's most prominent industrialists. In this engaging biography, the first on a Spanish entrepreneur in English, Hugh Thomas recounts Barreiros's origins as an auto mechanic, his success in the motor industry, his tragic alliance with the Chrysler Corporation, and his little-known role as a motor industry founder in 1980's Cuba. Drawing on an unrivaled knowledge of Spanish history, Lord Thomas also brings to light Barreiros's critical role in the modernization of the Spanish economy in the post-Civil War years. The book offers a detailed portrait of Don Eduardo's personality, character, and numerous entrepreneurial endeavors, as well as a full account of the difficulties the Franco-era government threw in the path of his capitalist activities. The relationship between Barreiros and the Chrysler Corporation is also described, along with the failed Dodge Dart project that ultimately cost Barreiros his business. Finally, the book recounts Don Eduardo's late-in-life efforts to help establish a motor industry in Castro's Cuba-a paradoxical conclusion for a great capitalist.

Contents:

The peasants do the real work

The Rodriguezes of Gundias

The Barreiroses of Sabadelle

"βGuagua, guagua!"

Give to him who asks

A clear, bright town

The Spanish catastrophe

People lived for politics

There came forth from the soil armed men

Red beret

This cruel struggle

Establishing a national syndicalist system

The rich girl of the village

Marching alone

Transform your car to diesel

Good-bye rivers, good-bye fountains, good-bye little streams

A good source of income

"Madrid! Madrid!"

The vehicle of progress

Onward, Barreiros!

My boyfriend works in Barreiros

The factory of happiness

We worked with optimism

Your call persuaded me

We beseech you to refuse a licence

Boys always run after motor cars

A university of work

The new gods from the west

Disagreement with the Americans

Very sad for us

A combination of adversities

We never thought that we would reach this moment

A place in La Mancha

Life has dealt me a bad hand

Don Eduardo in the land of comrades

Villaverde revisited

I am a Barreiros product.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-372) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-35238-5

9786612352386

0-300-14246-3

OCLC:

1023994040