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.
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 ...