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Miguel Primo de Rivera
Miguel Primo de Rivera. Dictadura, populismo y nación es la primera biografía exhaustiva sobre el hombre que cambió la historia de España del siglo XX. Frente a las interpretaciones tradicionales que lo definen como un hombre campechano, sin una ideología clara e impulsor de una dictadura paternalista muy alejada del fascismo italiano, esta obra nos describe a un político astuto, ambicioso y con muy pocos escrúpulos, que impulsó un régimen nacionalista, autoritario y profundamente represivo en línea con el resto de las dictaduras europeas contemporáneas. Primo de Rivera fue el creador del populismo de derechas en España al denunciar a los políticos profesionales como élites cor...
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World is a collection of original essays that offer insights into how the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 shaped and influenced the political culture of Iberian America.
Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime
How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors inFranco's regime and Spain's forced modernization.
Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde
This book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses and practices, especially in literature and poetry, in what is conventionally called in Spanish letters "The Generation of '27", created fissures between competing views of aesthetics and ideology that cut across political affiliation. Silvina Schammah exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards, as they were torn by their ambition for universality, cosmopolitanism and transcendence on the one hand and by the centripetal forces of nationalistic ideologies on the other. Taking upon themselves roles to become the disseminators and populizers of radical positions and world-views first elaborated and conducted by the young urban intelligentsia, their proposed aim of incorporating diverse identities embedded in different cultural constructions and discourse was to have very real and tragic consequences as political and intellectual lines polarized in the years prior to the Spanish Civil War.
Crosses of Memory and Oblivion
This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the civil war, Francoism, and the transition to democracy. Chapters in the book focus on the myth of those said to have 'fallen for God and for Spain'—a phrase that encapsulated and shaped the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Spaniards. They also focus on the use of monuments to control political and ideological ideals and to legitimise the Francoist dictatorship. Further chapters study Spanish society’s struggle to deal wit...
Destierro / Des-cielo
Al rememorar el exilio de Unamuno, repasamos también una etapa de la historia de España convulsa y compleja, en la que los ciudadanos se vieron abocados a enfrentamientos fratricidas en medio de una situación política inestable y poco previsible. La lucha de Unamuno en el exilio, sabedor de la fuerza que su imagen y figura tenían, tanto en el ámbito nacional como en el internacional, conformó un bloque de pensamiento en España que aún hoy es parafraseado con frecuencia para recordar la importancia de la cultura, la ciencia y la educación para cualquier sociedad. El libro ha querido nutrirse de material sustentado, en gran medida, en los fondos de la Casa-Museo Unamuno, que continúa profundizando y recuperando documentos y objetos de uno de los personajes más ilustres de cuantos han estado vinculados a la Universidad de Salamanca.
La Florida
Commemorating Juan Ponce de León’s landfall on the Atlantic coast of Florida, this ambitious volume explores five centuries of Hispanic presence in the New World peninsula, reflecting on the breadth and depth of encounters between the different lands and cultures. The contributors, leading experts in a range of fields, begin with an examination of the first and second Spanish periods. This was a time when La Florida was an elusive possession that the Spaniards were never able to completely secure; but Spanish influence would nonetheless leave an indelible mark on the land. In the second half of this volume, the essays highlight the Hispanic cultural legacy, politics, and history of modern Florida, and expand on Florida’s role as a modern Trans-Atlantic cross roads. Melding history, literature, anthropology, music, culture, and sociology, La Florida is a unique presentation of the Hispanic roots that run deep in Florida’s past and present and will assuredly shape its future.
Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936
Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936 studies the relationship between landscape and modern identities in the Basque Country. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines cultural history and geography, it analyses the process of historical construction of the Basque landscape, highlighting its multiple political, social and cultural meanings. The book is divided into two parts: the first examines the discourses, images and representations of the Basque landscape; the second examines landscape practices through tourism, hiking and mountaineering. Focusing on the Basque case but establishing numerous connections with comparable phenomena in Western Europe, the...
The Crucible of Francoism
The July 1936 coup d'tat against the Spanish Second Republic brought together a diversity of anti-Republican political and social groups under the leadership of rebel Africanista military officers. In the ensuing Civil War this coalition gradually came under the rule of Generalissimo Franco. This volume explores the hypothesis that the violence and combat experiences of the war were the fundamental ideological crucible for the Francoist regime. The rebels were a group of reactionary and anti-liberal forces with little ideological or political coherence, but they emerged from the conflict not only victorious but ideologically united under the dictator's power. Key to understanding this transi...
Whose Spain?
English with excerpts in Spanish and French.
