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Book Review: Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration by Vanessa Heggie

this history is unique or specific to Spain. Preston is careful to explain the ‘black legend’ history of writing on Spain, and to distance himself from the tradition of (particularly British) orientalist accounts of a romantic, backwards and violent Spanish society. And, as he argues in the preface, there are plenty of other countries where political corruption and incompetence have been painfully apparent in recent history, including in Brexit Britain. But can we meaningfully argue that some national histories are more beset by corruption and incompetence than others? And, if we do, what kind of evidence can we use to demonstrate it? Given that so many of Spain’s modern corruption scandals are profoundly transnational – full of misappropriated EU funds and offshore tax havens – this may be a research field where comparative and transnational approaches need to play more of a role. They may help us to decide if the Spanish people have been any more deeply betrayed by their political class than the rest of us.