Overview
- The state award, granted by the Ministry of Culture, carries a €30,000 endowment for the best historical work published in the preceding year.
- The jury cited the book’s “agile and brilliant” narrative that clearly presents complex ideas about the arrival of American mass culture in early 20th-century Spain.
- The study examines cinema, jazz, consumer modernity and skyscrapers, highlighting the influence of figures such as Charlie Chaplin on social practices and tastes.
- Fuentes is a professor of contemporary history at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a numerary member of the Real Academia de la Historia.
- He follows the 2024 laureate, Javier Moreno Luzón, recognized for “El rey patriota: Alfonso XIII y la nación.”