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.
War in Spain: Appeasement, Collective Insecurity, and the Failure of European Democracies Against Fascism
1st Edition
By David Jorge
May 30, 2022
This work covers the international importance of the War in Spain through the two organizations that marked the multilateral action towards the conflict: The League of Nations and the Non-Intervention Committee. France and the United Kingdom diverted both deliberations as well as decision-making ...
Claiming the City and Contesting the State: Squatting, Community Formation and Democratization in Spain (1955–1986)
1st Edition
By Inbal Ofer
August 14, 2018
The present book analyzes the relationship between internal migration, urbanization and democratization in Spain during the period of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975) and Spain's transition to democracy (1975-1982). Specifically, the book explores the production and management of...
Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
1st Edition
By Danny Evans
April 26, 2018
This book analyses the processes of revolution and state reconstruction that took place in the Republican zone during the Spanish civil war. It focuses on the radical anarchists who sought to advance the revolutionary agenda. Their activity came into conflict with the leaders of the ...
Mass Killings and Violence in Spain, 1936-1952: Grappling with the Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Anderson, Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco
January 06, 2017
Historians have only recently established the scale of the violence carried out by the supporters of General Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. An estimated 88,000 unidentified victims of Francoist violence remain to be exhumed from mass graves and given a dignified burial,...
British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939
1st Edition
By Richard Baxell
October 12, 2015
During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15 International Brigadesasking: * Who were these ...
Conspiracy and the Spanish Civil War: The Brainwashing of Francisco Franco
1st Edition
By Herbert R. Southworth
October 12, 2015
Written by one of the most celebrated historians of the Spanish Civil War, this book presents a fascinating account of the origins of the war and the nature and importance of conspiracy for the extreme right. Based on exhaustive research, and written with lucidity and considerable humour, it acts ...
The Francoist Military Trials: Terror and Complicity,1939-1945
1st Edition
By Peter Anderson
April 23, 2015
In Spain between 1936-1945, the Franco regime carried out one Europe’s more brutal but less remembered programs of mass repression. Many were murdered by the regime’s death squads, and in some areas Francoists also subjected up to 15% of the population to summary military trials. Here many suffered...
Anarchism, the Republic and Civil War in Spain: 1931-1939
1st Edition
By Julián Casanova
April 09, 2014
The Spanish Civil War became the setting for the struggle between revolution and counter-revolution as well as being, for many outsiders, the place of armed conflict between the forces of democracy and fascism. This book is a path-breaking synthesis of political, social and cultural history ...
Spain 1914-1918: Between War and Revolution
1st Edition
By Francisco J. Romero Salvado, Francisco Jose Romero Salvado
April 09, 2014
This work analyses the Spanish experience of the First World War in terms of the general crisis in Europe at this time. In Spain, as elsewhere, the impact of four years of devastating conflict resulted in ideological militancy, economic dislocation and social struggle. The author examines the ...
Spaniards in the Holocaust: Mauthausen, Horror on the Danube
1st Edition
By David Wingeate Pike
April 09, 2014
This important work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible camps in Nazi Germany. Refugees from the repercussions of the Civil War, 7,000 Spanish Republicans were arrested in France by the invading...
Women and Spanish Fascism: The Women's Section of the Falange 1934-1959
1st Edition
By Kathleen J.L. Richmond
March 31, 2014
Using forty-five interviews with former members and sympathisers, this book traces the development of the Women's section of the Franco government from its roots in the Spanish fascist party to its role in the dictatorship up to 1959. The study reveals that despite its anti-feminist agenda, the ...
British Women and the Spanish Civil War
1st Edition
By Angela Jackson
February 25, 2014
Through oral and written narratives, this book examines the interaction between women and the war in Spain, their motivation, the distinctive form of their involvment and the effect of the war on their individual lives. These themes are related to wider issues, such as the nature of memory and the ...