The Spanish Republic and Civil War

The Spanish Republic and Civil War

by Julián Casanova
ISBN-10:
052173780X
ISBN-13:
9780521737807
Pub. Date:
07/29/2010
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
052173780X
ISBN-13:
9780521737807
Pub. Date:
07/29/2010
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
The Spanish Republic and Civil War

The Spanish Republic and Civil War

by Julián Casanova
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Overview

The Spanish Civil War has gone down in history for the horrific violence that it generated. The climate of euphoria and hope that greeted the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy was utterly transformed just five years later by a cruel and destructive civil war. Here Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, offers a magisterial new account of this critical period in Spanish history. He exposes the ways in which the Republic brought into the open simmering tensions between Catholics and hardline anticlericalists, bosses and workers, Church and State, order and revolution. In 1936 these conflicts tipped over into the sacas, paseos and mass killings which are still passionately debated today. The book also explores the decisive role of the international instability of the 1930s in the duration and outcome of the conflict. Franco's victory was in the end a victory for Hitler and Mussolini and for dictatorship over democracy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521737807
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/29/2010
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 372
Sales rank: 945,709
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Julián Casanova is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is one of the leading experts on the Second Republic and Spanish Civil War and has published widely in Spanish and English translations.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Republic: 1. The winds of change; 2. The constraints of democracy; 3. Order and religion; 4. Reshaping the republic; 5. The seeds of confrontation; Part II. Civil War: 6. From coup d'état to civil war; 7. Order, revolution and political violence; 8. An international war; 9. The republic at war; 10. 'Nationalist' Spain; 11. Battlefields and rearguard politics; Epilogue. Why did the republic lose the war?
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