Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain
About the Book Series
The Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies is part of the London School of Economics. It is widely recognised as Europe's most important centre for research and post-graduate teaching on contemporary Spain. Interdisciplinary in nature this series includes the best new work being done both inside and outside the centre as well as translations of existing studies.
Working for Nazi Germany: Salvador Merino and Spanish Labor in the Third Reich
1st Edition
By Wayne H. Bowen
September 08, 2025
This book examines the leadership of Gerardo Salvador Merino, the chief director of the Sindicatos, fascist-controlled unions under the Franco Regime, and his plan to send 100,000 volunteer Spanish workers to Nazi Germany. Despite a degree of charisma and organizational effectiveness, the ambitions...
Beyond Folklore?: The Franco Regime and Ethnoterritorial Diversity in Spain, 1930–1975
1st Edition
By Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
July 31, 2025
This book analyzes the promotion of subnational identities undertaken by Spanish fascism and the Franco regime between 1930 and 1975, as well as their patterns of survival, accommodation and adaptation. It examines the proactive attitudes of the various actors committed to the dictatorship – from ...
The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24: Anguish and Enthusiasm
1st Edition
By Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez
July 31, 2025
The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24 explores the impact of the Russian Revolution on the world’s most powerful anarchist movement, the Spanish National Confederation of Labour. The monograph traces the curve of euphoria followed by scepticism that characterized anarchist ...
Rethinking the History of Democracy in Spain
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonio Herrera, Francisco Acosta
June 27, 2025
Focusing on the processes of political socialisation and democratisation that took place in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book brings together specialists who propose the need to rethink the contemporary history of democracy in Spain to build a new narrative. To do so, ...
Radical Basque Nationalist-Irish Republican Relations: A History
1st Edition
By Niall Cullen
May 27, 2025
This volume explains the genesis and development of the nexus between radical Basque nationalists and Irish republicans, how they have learnt from each other historically, and how they have utilised this relationship, at times, to their benefit. From medieval tales of shared origins to the violent...
Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War
1st Edition
Edited
By Raanan Rein, Susanne Zepp-Zwirner
April 14, 2025
This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less-known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Special attention is given to volunteers of different historical experiences, especially Jews, and voices from less-researched countries in...
Crosses of Memory and Oblivion: The Monuments to the Fallen in the Spanish Civil War (1936-2022)
1st Edition
By Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco
January 30, 2025
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 ...
The People’s Dictator: The Life of General Primo de Rivera
1st Edition
By Alejandro Quiroga
January 29, 2025
This book is the first major biography of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain between 1923 and 1930, who played a key role in the shaping of a counterrevolutionary Europe in the interwar era. Following new historiographical trends, this book combines biographical experiences of the ...
Operation Bribes: How Winston Churchill and Juan March Bought Franco’s Generals
1st Edition
By Ángel Viñas
November 29, 2024
This forensic study of recently opened documents in Britain’s National Archives reveals for the first time the details of an officially unnamed secret operation authorised by Winston Churchill in 1940 to keep Spain neutral in the Second World War through the financial manipulation of Spanish ...
Democracy and Sovereignty in Spain: Conceptual Innovation in the Spanish Constituent Assembly of 1931
1st Edition
By Francisco J. Bellido
October 07, 2024
This book delves into the conceptual changes produced by the Spanish constitutional debate held between 27 August and 9 December 1931. Taking place at the beginning of Spain’s Second Republic, those parliamentary deliberations brought about significant novelties in the political vocabulary. ...
Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
1st Edition
By Javier Rodrigo
January 09, 2023
In this highly important book, Javier Rodrigo examines the role of Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. Fascist Italy’s intervention in the Spanish Civil War to provide material, strategic, and diplomatic assistance led to Italy becoming a belligerent in the conflict. Following...
Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain: The Building of the Nation-State, 1780–1931
1st Edition
Edited
By David San Narciso, Margarita Barral Martínez, Carolina Armenteros
May 30, 2022
Bringing together the work of top specialists and emerging scholars in the field, this volume is the first book-length study of the rapport between liberalism and the Spanish monarchy over the long nineteenth century in any language. It is at once a general overview and a set of original ...