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Exile and Gender I
This new volume in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, entitled Exile and Gender: Literature and the Press, edited by Charmian Brinson and Andrea Hammel, focuses on the work of exiled women writers and journalists as well as on gendered representations in the writing of both male and female exiled writers. The contributions are in English or German. The seventeen contributions set out to both celebrate and critically examine the concepts of gender and sexuality in exile in a wide range of texts by well-known and lesser known authors, and throw light on many different aspects of gendered authorship and gendered relations. Our volume also looks at ...
Spanish Civil War and Its Memory, The
The CASB Occasional Papers is intended as a platform for the dissemination of research focused on Spanish topics carried out by young American university students. Many students come to Spain to complete their academic studies, discover the complexity of the local society and its history and, as a consequence, some of them address their academic interest in Hispanic issues in writing. In this sense, CASB Occasional Papers aims to contribute to the evolution of a new generation of “Hispanistas” from different fields and backgrounds in the very early steps of their academic careers and, at the same time, offer the results of their junior research to broader and non-specialized audiences. W...
Living Anarchism
"Magnificent."—Paul Preston, author of The Spanish Holocaust Brick maker by trade, revolutionary anarchist and historian by default; this is a study of the life of José Peirats (1908–1989) and the labor union that gave him life, the CNT. It is the biography of an individual but also of a collective agent—the working class Peirats was born into—and the affective ties of kinship, friendship, and community that cemented into a movement, the most powerful of its type in the world. Chris Ealham is the author of Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937.
Spanish Republicans and the Second World War
Spanish Republicans and the Second World War tells the stories of the 500,000 Spanish Republicans that fled across the Pyrenees in 1939 as Catalonia fell to Franco’s victorious army in the final weeks of the Civil War. Many of the exiles played an active part in the Second World War. Some joined the French and British armed forces and saw action in various theatres including Africa and Europe (both in 1940 and after D-Day). In August 1944, Spanish Republicans in the La Nueve Company of General Leclerc’s Deuxième Blindée were the first Allied troops into Paris during the liberation of the French capital. Those that had remained in Vichy France were active in the early days of the French...
2001
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
Fear and Progress
Utilizing hundreds of confidential documents from authorities in the Franco government, Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco's Spain, 1939-1975 recounts the experiences of Spanish citizens who lived during the 40-year Franco dictatorship. Rejects traditional explanations of the length of Franco's power and the dictator's legacy Utilizes hundreds of confidential documents from authorities in the Franco government Provides insights into life during the Franco era: how political violence and repression were experienced; how the dictatorship exploited illusions of peace and prosperity for its own benefit; and how the regime's legacy was manipulated Reveals the Franco government's social callousness and manipulation of events
The Pyrenees in the Modern Era
This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book analyses the individual visions of the heroic Pyrenees which in turn fascinated 19th-century mountaineers and the racing cyclists of the early Tour de France. Martyn Lyons also investigates the role of the Pyrenees during the Second World War as an escape route from Nazi-occupied France, when for thousands of refugees these dangerous borderlands became 'the mountains of liberty', and considers the place of the Pyrenees in recent times right up to the present day. Drawing on travel writing, press reports and scientific texts in several languages, The Pyrenees in the Modern Era explores both the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees to provide a nuanced historical understanding of the cultural construction of one of Europe's most prominent border regions. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Europe's cultural history in a transnational context.
Diccionari biogràfic del moviment obrer als països catalans
Una obra col·lectiva importantíssima per a la història dels Països Catalans als segles XIX i XX. Conté milers de biografies de dirigents obrers i sindicals, i pel que fa al segle XIX de signataris de manifestos i documents polítics o sindicals significatius. Pel que fa al segle XX incorpora, també, tots aquells obrers que en algun moment de la seva militància varen tenir la delegació del seu partit o del seu sindicat en un congrés, conferència o assamblea representatius.
Maquis en el Alto Aragón
Maquis en el Alto Aragón. La guerrilla en los Pirineos Centrales (1944-1949) es unviaje transversal a la resistencia armada antifascista entre el verano de 1944 y el otoño de 1949 que pivota sobre un erudito y exuberante trabajo del movimiento guerrillero en el Aragón septentrional: su historia, su geografía, rutas, bases, enlaces, sucesos.
Las Brigadas Internacionales
Las Brigadas Internacionales forman parte indisociable de nuestra memoria histórica asociada a la Guerra Civil, una memoria histórica bien distinta según de qué lado de las trincheras se estuviera, así como de la ideología y valores de los que nos hagamos partícipes los españoles y cuantos extranjeros los asuman como propios. Sobre ellas no dejan de aparecer estudios e investigaciones como los que hoy se reúnen aquí, que tienen su origen en algunas de las ponencias y comunicaciones presentadas en el Congreso Internacional del Antifascismo Combatiente, desde las Brigadas Internacionales a la “resistencia”, que tuvo lugar en Barcelona con motivo del 75.º aniversario de la creación de las Brigadas los días 27, 28 y 29 de octubre de 2011. Participaron en tal evento destacados especialistas españoles y extranjeros que abordaron la cuestión desde diversas perspectivas enriqueciendo así nuestro cocimiento de su participación en la GCE y su significación histórica.
