In Search of a Past

Resumen del libro

Ronald Fraser is an internationally renowned chronicler of other people's experience. In Search of a Past is his remarkable account of his own origins. Born in Hamburg in 1930, he settled in the Home Counties at three years of age with his wealthy American mother and Scots father to enter the life of the energetically idle rich. Their new existence centered on fox-hunting, shooting and entertaining. Gathering the memories of the servants who worked at the Manor House during his childhood, the author first recreates a vivid picture of a vanished interwar world. Sensitively recorded, their words portray the texture of county life as seen from below woven into a background of their personal lives, their work and the social antagonisms they experienced.

Biografía del autor

Ronald Fraser (Hamburgo, 1930 x{0026} x02013; Valencia, 2012) fue uno de los grandes historiadores de nuestro tiempo. Formado en Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos y Suiza, fue profesor visitante de historia contemporánea de España e historia oral en la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles. Entre sus libros destacan Mijas. República, guerra, franquismo en un pueblo andaluz (1985), Recuérdalo tú y recuérdalo a otros (1979) -convertido en un clásico sobre la guerra civil española- Escondido. El calvario de Manuel Cortés (2006) y La maldita guerra de España Historia social de la Guerra de la Independencia, 1808-1814 (2006).