Includes bibliographical references and index.

Imagined memory as the weight of the past : political transitions in Spain / Enric Ucelay-da Cal -- Key factors to understand the Spanish transition / José María Marín Arce -- Regions, nations and nationalities : on the process of territorial identity-building during Spain's democratic transition and consolidation / Xosé-Manoel Núñez -- Political transition in Spain : state and Basque nationalism / Ander Gurrutxaga Abad -- Democracy and terrorism in Spain / Juan Avilés -- Between past and future : children and the contest over cultural and political identity during the Spanish transition to democracy, Salamanca, 1977-1979 / Tamar Groves. Representative democracy and effective institutions : democratic practice in contemporary Latin America / Luis Roniger -- Brazil : the "slow, gradual and secure transition to democracy" / Dina Lida Kinoshita -- Transition and democratic construction in post-Fujimori Peru / Rafael Roncagliolo -- How the Argentine military invented human rights in Argentina / David Sheinin -- Educational reforms in transitions to democracy : the cases of Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay / Batia Siebzehner.