Sir john elliott, a British historian and the foremost authority on Spain's imperial apogee in the 16th and 17th centuries, delivered a paper at Santander's Me-nendez Pelayo University this summer in which he ventured that "the period between 1975 and 2000 may come to be seen in retrospect as a golden age of Spanish history." He went on to say that the past eight years "have seen the falling of shadows over what for a quarter of a century had seemed to be an increasingly sunny landscape". The shadows include polarisation, the re-emergence of dogmatism and "narrow-minded nationalism and localism".rnWhen Franco died, politicians across the political spectrum were determined to seek deals that would avoid the mistakes of the past. They blamed political maxi-malism from both right and left for plunging the country into the bloodletting of the civil war and its aftermath of repression in which about 600,000 people died. The constitution promulgated in December 1978 was preceded by a broad amnesty and contained some historic compromises. The left accepted a parliamentary monarchy instead of seeking to restore the Second Republic snuffed out by Franco. The right agreed to devolution for the Basque country, Catalonia and Galicia, which it had opposed (and annulled) in the 1930s.
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机译：英国历史学家约翰·埃利奥特爵士（Sir john elliott）爵士，是16世纪和17世纪西班牙帝国最高法院的最高权威。今年夏天，他在桑坦德大学的Me-nendez Pelayo大学发表了一篇论文，他大胆地冒险说：“ 1975年至2000年之间的时期可能是回想起来是西班牙历史的黄金时代。”他继续说，在过去的八年中，“在过去的四分之一世纪里，阴影似乎越来越晴朗”。阴影包括两极分化，教条主义的重新出现和“狭national的民族主义和地方主义”。当佛朗哥去世时，整个政治领域的政治家都决心寻求避免过去错误的交易。他们谴责左右政治上的极端主义，使该国陷入内战的流血冲突及其压制的后果，大约有60万人丧生。 1978年12月颁布的宪法之前是大赦，其中包含一些历史性的妥协。左派接受了君主立宪制，而不是试图恢复佛朗哥ed灭的第二共和国。该权利同意将其移交给巴斯克国家，加泰罗尼亚和加利西亚，在1930年代曾反对（废除）。
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