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.
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 ...
The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition: The Spanish Model
1st Edition
Edited
By Diego Muro, Gregorio Alonso
November 22, 2010
Most accounts on the Spanish transition to democracy of the late 1970s are based on a false dilemma. Its simplest formulation could be: was it the pressure from below, i.e. the organized working classes, students and neighbors associations that triggered political change; or was the elite ...
The Politics of Contemporary Spain
1st Edition
By Sebastian Balfour
January 21, 2005
While Spain is now a well-established democracy closely integrated into the European Union, it has suffered from a number of severe internal problems such as corruption, discord between state and regional nationalism, and separatist terrorism. The Politics of Contemporary Spain charts the ...
Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937
1st Edition
By Chris Ealham
November 22, 2004
This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. Focusing upon the sources of anarchist power in the city and the role of the organised anarchist movement during the Second Republic the volume concludes with an analysis of the ...
Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Balfour, Paul Preston, Professor Paul Preston
June 21, 1999
Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Centuryexamines the international context to, and influences on, Spanish history and politics from 1898 to the present day. Spanish history is necessarily international, with the significance of Spain's neutrality in the First World War and the global ...