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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...
Lawfare — Judicial Warfare in Spain
For centuries, the Spanish state has proved to be an expert system for repressing political dissent and any threat that could jeopardize the maintenance of the status quo. It has done so using all the institutions and all the areas of power that were necessary, for the end has always justified the means. Carles Mundo, Catalan Minister of Justice, 2016-2017. There is no book in Spain that talks about lawfare. Nor is there a book that deals with the system of judicial repression of political dissidence deployed by the Franco regime. Nor is there a book that denounces the judicial system inherited from the dictatorial regime and that was later embodied in the 1978 Constitution. Lawfare (the com...
Colonial Paradigms of Violence
European Holocaust Studies (EHS) publishes key international research results on the murder of the European Jews and its wider contexts. In recent years, scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendt`s "boomerang thesis" – the "coming home" of European colonialism as genocide on European soil – as well as Raphael Lemkin`s work around his definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. Germany and other European states are increasingly engaging in debates on comparing the Holocaust to other genocides and cases of mass killing, memorialization, "decolonization" and attempts to come to terms with the past ("Vergangenheitsbewältigung").
Alejandro Lerroux and the Failure of Spanish Republican Democracy
Alejandro Lerroux (18641949) was one of the most polemical figures of early twentieth century Spanish politics. As leader of the Radical Republican Party and six-time prime minister between 1933 and 1935, his admirers saw him as a patriot determined to create a Republic for all citizens, while his critics denounced him as an opportunistic demagogue willing to sacrifice the Republic to its enemies. Like his French republican contemporary Georges Clemenceau, Lerrouxs long political journey took him from the fiery radical leftism of his youth to centrist consensual politics. Thus while Lerroux was the most significant advocate of a revolutionary break with Spains monarchical and authoritarian p...
Reclaiming al-Andalus
Reclaiming al-Andalus focuses on the construction of the scholarly discipline of Orientalist studies in Spain. Special attention is paid to the impact that the elaboration of a series of historical interpretations of the legacy left by Muslim and Jewish culture in Spain had over the writing of national history in the period of the Bourbon Restoration. A historiographical account of Spains Orientalism tackles the problematized issues that both Arabist and Hebraist scholars sought to address. Orientalist scholarship thereby became inextricably linked to different interpretations of the historical shaping of Spanish national identity. Political circumstances of the day impacted on the approach ...
Galicia, un golpe sin cuartel, una guerra sin trincheras
Aunque por el título pueda parecerlo, este no es un libro sobre la historia de Galicia. Es un libro hecho desde Galicia que versa sobre una forma violenta de tomar el poder para derribar una democracia pluripartidista en la Europa de los años treinta y que analiza cómo funcionó el cuarto de ensayo de una dictadura totalitaria que se consolidó en tiempos del fascismo. Como el franquismo fue el único régimen dictatorial salido de las cenizas de una guerra total, enmarcar estas singularidades en los procesos de su tiempo y contextualizarlas es fundamental para aspirar a abordar un estudio más amplio. Detrás del golpe podría decirse que hay mucha más acción militar que reacción pol...
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War
In 25 innovative thematic essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War sees an interdisciplinary team of scholars examine a conflict that, more than 80 years after its conclusion, continues to generate both scholarly and public controversy. Split into four main sections covering Military and Diplomatic Issues, Society and Culture, Politics, and Debates, the volume offers a number of unique features. It is unprecedented in its comprehensiveness and includes chapters on topics that are rarely, if ever, explored in the literature of the field: humanitarianism, children and families, material conditions, the decimation of elites, archives and sources, archaeological approaches, digit...
Los nadie de la Guerra de España
Sueñan los Nadies de la Guerra de España que algún día llueva de pronto el reconocimiento que merecen, pero ni en llovizna les cae del cielo. Por contra, la tormenta del olvido les sigue empapando. Por mucho que nos llamen, solo tienen por respuesta el silencio. Después de tres años de guerra y cuatro décadas de dictadura, no se cuestionaron los relatos de los grandes nombres, las inamovibles dicotomías y la eterna narración de las dos Españas fratricidas que se mataron a garrotazos. Más de cuarenta democráticos años después, y a pesar del esfuerzo de activistas e historiadores, los Nadies siguen sin ser alguien, y parece que para nuestra sociedad resulta más cómodo así: los Nadies valen menos que el consenso que los olvidó. Leira Castiñeira, en la presente obra, devuelve a los Nadies al lugar que les corresponde en las páginas de la Historia. Dando voz a María y Urania, a Juan, a Francisco y Dorinda… el autor nos muestra una época con muchas más aristas de lo que los relatos dominantes nos han legado.
El pacifismo en España desde 1808 hasta el «No a la Guerra» de Iraq
El «No a la Guerra» inundó las calles y se desplegó en los balcones. Durante el primer trimestre de 2003, las capitales de nuestro país fueron testigos de repetidas manifestaciones en contra de la invasión de Iraq por parte de Estados Unidos, con la colaboración de Reino Unido y España, y en contra de las mentiras vertidas por los gobiernos de estos países. Pero ¿cómo se fue generando el pacifismo en nuestra contemporaneidad? Prestigiosos intelectuales de diversas disciplinas se han reunido para debatir sobre los conceptos que vertebran este libro: el antibelicismo, el antimilitarismo y el pacifismo. El objetivo es trazar una línea de continuidad en la formación del rechazo a ...
Religious Landscapes in Contemporary Spain
Spain is no longer exclusively identified with Catholicism. This book sets out to understand the social dynamics of twenty-first century Spain through the perspective of religion and religious pluralism. Divided into three parts, Part I, Secularization in Spain, frames the analysis of this secularization process throughout the twentieth century and beyond, with particular attention to the process during the Second Republic and the quiet secularization of society that began under Franco's regime. Part II, Religious Change in Spain, establishes the broad framework of the process, addressing the changes that have taken place within Catholicism and the reaction of the Protestant minority as social mores became increasingly fast moving. Part III, Islam in Spain, addresses both its history (including colonial management) and current dynamics (how Islam is viewed by other religions; the impact of the March 11, 2004, attacks; and Islamophobic discourse). Religious Landscapes in Contemporary Spain is essential reading for scholars and students in History and Contemporary Affairs.
