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.
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 ...
Medicine and Warfare: Spain, 1936–1939
1st Edition
By Nicholas Coni
February 13, 2014
This original work examines the differences in medical advances on the two sides of the Spanish Civil War. Covering all aspects of medical treatment during the war, Coni covers new ground with great aplomb and delivers a book which will interest scholars involved with medical history as ...
Red Barcelona: Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Angel Smith
February 13, 2014
As one of Europe's great industrial and revolutionary centres Barcelona has been in need of a detailed social and cultural history, yet there is actually a paucity of detailed research. This book redresses the balance. Focusing on the entire twentieth century, it allows for the emergence of ...
Churchill and Spain: The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940–1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Wigg
November 01, 2012
This thoroughly researched, highly perceptive and utterly gripping study deals with an important aspect of Spanish and British history - Churchill's policy of appeasement toward the Franco regime in Spain. Wigg demonstrates that the tolerance shown toward Spain's wartime trading permitted the ...
Catalan Nationalism: Francoism, Transition and Democracy
1st Edition
By Montserrat Guibernau
September 10, 2012
Are the Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism within the EU? How does globalization impact upon the survival and development of nations without states such as Catalonia? Will increasing numbers of immigrants transform ...
Gunpowder and Incense: The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War
1st Edition
By Hilari Raguer
September 10, 2012
Now available in English for the first time, Gunpowder and Incense (translated from the Spanish La Pólvora y el Incienso) chronicles the role of the Church in Spanish politics, looking in particular at the Spanish Civil War. Unlike most books on the subject, Hilari Raguer looks beyond the ...
Ethnicity and Violence: The Case of Radical Basque Nationalism
1st Edition
By Diego Muro
January 06, 2011
This book provides a genealogy of radical Basque nationalism and the means by which this complex, often violent, political movement has reinforced Basque identity. Radical nationalists are mobilized by a shared frame of reference where ethnicity and violence are intertwined in a nostalgic ...
The Foundations of Civil War: Revolution, Social Conflict and Reaction in Liberal Spain, 1916–1923
1st Edition
By Francisco J. Romero Salvado
December 15, 2010
This book analyzes the decay of Liberal politics in Spain as the regional version of the general crisis that engulfed most of Europe between 1916 and 1923. Romero enriches the important wider debate about this watershed period of European history when, in the face of unprecedented mass ...