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Norman Bethune in Spain
Commitment, Crisis and Conspiracy
Inbunden, 2013
890 kr
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Born to fanatical religious zealots, deeply wounded by an unloving mother and a weak father whom he hated, Norman Bethune struggled throughout his life to overcome deep emotional scars. Sexually inhibited, given to outbursts of near psychopathic rage, this wounded doctor healed himself through …
Press, Politics and National Identities in Catalonia
The Transformation of La Vanguardia, 1881-1931
Av Pol Dalmau
Häftad, 2019
672 kr
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For more than three generations, the members of the Godo family controlled Barcelonas top-selling newspaper La Vanguardia, navigating it through the countrys turbulent 20th century. Whether under the corrupt politics of the Bourbon Restoration, the radical transformations of the Second Republic or …
Political Comedy and Social Tragedy
Spain, a Laboratory of Social Conflict, 1892-1921
Av Francisco J. Romero Salvado
Inbunden, 2020
1952 kr
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A prequel to the authors previous monographs on the Great War and the Foundations of the Spanish Civil War, this book analyses the troubled and often violent path of Spain to modernity. During the nearly 30 years of history explored (18921921), the country appeared to be caught in a kind of …
Political Comedy and Social Tragedy
Spain, a Laboratory of Social Conflict, 1892-1921
Av Francisco J. Romero Salvado
Häftad, 2020
749 kr
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A prequel to the authors previous monographs on the Great War and the Foundations of the Spanish Civil War, this book analyses the troubled and often violent path of Spain to modernity. During the nearly 30 years of history explored (18921921), the country appeared to be caught in a kind of …
Faith and the Fury
Popular Anticlerical Violence and Iconoclasm in Spain, 1931-1936
Av Maria Thomas
Häftad, 2019
594 kr
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The five-year period following the proclamation of the Republic in April 1931 was marked by physical assaults upon the property and public ritual of the Spanish Catholic Church. These attacks were generally carried out by rural and urban anticlerical workers who were frustrated by the Republic's …
Ruptura
The Impact of Nationalism and Extremism on Daily Life in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Inbunden, 2019
1952 kr
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Despite over 20,000 published books on the Spanish civil war, it remains the case that the social and cultural dimensions of the conflict have been relatively under-researched. Ruptura focuses on how nationalism, and extremist conceptions and projects, defined daily life experiences in both the …
Anarchism and Political Change in Spain
Schism, Polarisation and Reconstruction of the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo, 1939-1979
Häftad, 2019
827 kr
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This history of the anarcho-syndicalist trade union, the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo, analyses a period much neglected in historical research: from the end of the civil war in 1939 to the period of democratic change from 1976 to 1979, when the organisation was reconstructed after Francos …
My Mother, That Stranger
Letters from the Spanish Civil War
Häftad, 2019
594 kr
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Over eight-hundred letters were written between the authors newly-engaged parents during the time that her father was on the Republican war front fighting against Francos forces, and her mother awaiting the end of the war. Her father, Professor Juan Luis Alborg, would live to become a well-known …
Illusion of Statehood
Perceptions of Catalan Independence up to the End of the Spanish Civil War
Inbunden, 2019
1952 kr
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In October 1936, as the Spanish Civil War turned a tension in peripheral Europe into a European disaster, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy signed a series of agreements detailing the need for a common action to prevent the creation and consolidation of a Catalan …
Illusion of Statehood
Perceptions of Catalan Independence up to the End of the Spanish Civil War
Av Arnau Gonzalez Vilalta, Enric Ucelay-Da Cal m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
672 kr
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In October 1936, as the Spanish Civil War turned a tension in peripheral Europe into a European disaster, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy signed a series of agreements detailing the need for a common action to prevent the creation and consolidation of a Catalan …
House of Alice Roughton: Cambridge Doctor, Humanist, Patron and Activist
From the Edwardian to the Contemporary
Häftad, 2019
614 kr
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From her home at 9 Adams Road in the university city of Cambridge, Alice Roughton (19001995) demonstrated a strongly altruistic lifestyle, housing young students, the mentally ill, artists, intellectuals, friends, persecuted homosexuals and refugees (German Jews in 1939, Hungarians in 1956 and …
Juan Negrín
Physiologist, Socialist, and Spanish Republican War Leader
Häftad, 2019
685 kr
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Dr. Juan Negrín López (1892-1956) was a man of immense talent, energy, and socialist convictions who served the Spanish people in different capacities: as a physiologist of international reputation and as chairman of the medical faculty of the Complutense University in Madrid during the 1920s; as …
Money, Politics and Corruption in Modern Spain
Av Borja de Riquer y Permanyer, Ferran Toledano Gonzalez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1896 kr
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It is common to think that Latin countries, in southern Europe or Latin America, are naturally corrupt regions when, in reality, this is a modern-day cliche that merely legitimises alleged superiority. This book provides the interpretative tools to investigate political corruption in contemporary …
Independence, Language and Identity in Modern Catalonia
A Study in Socio-Cultural and Socio-Political Allegiance
Av Steven Byrne
Häftad, 2022
728 kr
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The processes associated with globalisation have seen Catalonia become an increasingly ethnolinguistically diverse region. A vibrant civic and political movement for an independence has brought a renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak …
"Miss Spain in Exile"
Isa Reyes' Escape from the Spanish Civil War — Flamenco and Stardom in 1930s Europe
Häftad, 2020
594 kr
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On the day in 1936 that Franco invaded Spain, a fifteen-year-old girl from Madrid was on vacation in the Sierra de Gredos, a mountain range popular for hikers. Isa (Conchita) Reyes fled Spain for Paris with her mother and sister, taking only what they could carry in their suitcases. Her father …
Fabric of Fear
Building Franco's New Society in Spain, 1936-1950
Av Jorge Marco, Gutmaro Gomez Bravo
Inbunden, 2023
1864 kr
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The Fabric of Fear deals comprehensively with the process of Francoist state- and nation-building in Spain. Franco’s chosen tools were mass repression and ‘cleansing’, undertaken both during the battlefield war of 1936–39 and in the decade afterwards, when ‘war’ against defeated constituencies …
Negotiating Neutrality
Anglo-Spanish Relations in the Age of Appeasement, 1931-1940
Av Scott Ramsay
Inbunden, 2021
1952 kr
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The British government's policy of non-intervention in response to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War sought primarily to prevent the conflict escalating into a wider European war but also to ensure that it could maintain or establish cordial relations with whichever side emerged victorious. Due …
Feeling the Heat
A Decade as a Foreign Correspondent in Spain — From the Financial Crisis to the Pandemic
Häftad, 2021
577 kr
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Raphael Minder landed in Madrid in 2010 to cover Spain for The New York Times just as the dark clouds of the financial crisis were about to burst into a full-fledged euro debt storm. A Decade as a Foreign Correspondent follows the turbulent and momentous events that have reshaped the countrys …
Franco's Soldiers
Recruitment and Combat in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Av Francisco J. Leira-Castiñeira
Inbunden, 2023
2129 kr
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The coup d'etat of July 1936 split Spain in two, shaping a chessboard of terror, misery and death that would put an end to the Republic and give sustenance to dictatorship. In the rebel territory, Franco's soldiers were often not convinced followers, but mere pawns forced to fight for the future of …
Franco's Soldiers
Recruitment and Combat in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Av Francisco J. Leira-Castiñeira
Häftad, 2023
672 kr
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The coup d'etat of July 1936 split Spain in two, shaping a chessboard of terror, misery and death that would put an end to the Republic and give sustenance to dictatorship. In the rebel territory, Franco's soldiers were often not convinced followers, but mere pawns forced to fight for the future of …
Tartan Angels
The Scottish Ambulance Unit in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Häftad, 2023
594 kr
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Tartan Angels sheds light on the work of the Scottish Ambulance Unit (SAU) and the crucial part it played in British medical and humanitarian aid to Spain. In the eighty-five years since the outbreak of the civil war an immense historiography has developed. A steady widening of focus has seen the …
Stalinism on Trial
Communism and Republican Justice in the Spanish Civil War
Häftad, 2027
626 kr
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Stalinism on Trial is a history of Communism and anti-Communism in the Spanish Civil War. It uses newly available archival material to reassess Soviet intervention in Spain and reappraise the role of Premier Juan Negrín. How did the Soviet operation affect attempts to rebuild the Republican justice …
Spanish Civil War in the British and French Press
The Badajoz, Alcázar of Toledo, Madrid, and Guernica News Stories
Inbunden, 2024
2218 kr
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This book examines coverage of the Spanish Civil War by the leading French and British newspapers, and agencies like Havas and Reuters. Their foundational reporting created a bedrock of ‘shared news’, which reverberated in places as geographically and ideologically remote as Moscow or Berlin.It …
Quest for Survival After Franco
Moderate Francoism and the Slow Journey to the Polls, 1964-1977
Häftad, 2005
578 kr
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This book engages with a central yet hitherto neglected dimension of the transition to democracy in Spain. It examines the emergence and development of Moderate Francoism from 1964, the year when the Law of Associations was introduced, until 1977, the year of the first democratic elections. The …
Spanish Right and the Jews, 1898-1945
Antisemitism and Opportunism
Häftad, 2008
487 kr
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Published in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.
Churchill and Spain
The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940-1945
Av Richard Wigg
Häftad, 2008
510 kr
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Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies. "Churchill and Spain" examines why Franco's regime was alone among Europe's "Big Three" Fascist dictatorships in being able to survive beyond the end of the Second World War, and to what extent Churchill's …
Triumph at Midnight in the Century
A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea - Explaining the Roots of the Spanish Civil War
Inbunden, 2008
2012 kr
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Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write concretely and sensuously: about himself in order to understand his mid-life nervous breakdown; and about his generation as a way of explaining the …
Catalonia: An Emerging Economy
The Most Cost-Effective Ports in the Mediterranean Sea
Inbunden, 2010
1952 kr
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The Mediterranean sea is set to achieve the highest volume of shipping trade in the world in the 21st century. This anticipated expansion will be due in part to the growth of the AsiaEurope trade corridor, complemented by the proposed Suez Canal enlargement. The Catalan ports of Barcelona, Valencia …
Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism
The Juventud de Accion Popular in Spain, 1931-1939
Av Sid Lowe
Inbunden, 2010
1952 kr
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Spain's first democracy was announced to popular jubilation in April 1931, a new dawn ushered in without a single shot being fired. Yet just over five years later the country was plunged into a brutal civil war that bequeathed hundreds of thousands of deaths and an authoritarian dictatorship under …
Ashes and Granite
Destruction and Reconstruction in the Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath
Inbunden, 2011
1952 kr
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Olivia Munoz-Rojas critically examines the wartime destruction and post-war rebuilding of three prominent sites in Madrid, Bilbao and Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. Each case highlights different dimensions of the material impact of the conflict, the practical challenges of …
