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Getting it Wrong in Spain

From Civil War to Uncivil Peace (1936-1975)

Susana Belenguer editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:31st May '17

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This book brings together different and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, its victims, its contentious ending, and its aftermath. In exploring the slow demise of republican ideals, contributors range over many diverse historical and cultural topics — discussing, for instance, the attitudes of both Left and Right to the poet Federico García Lorca and to his assassination, examining the documentary evidence offered in surviving memoirs of the Civil War, and assessing the major characteristics of the new order in Spain under Franco.

Cinematic and literary depictions of the Civil War and its consequences are also studied. Other topics investigated include: contemporary French reactions to the Spanish conflict, Stalinist policies towards Spain, the activities and motives of the anarcho-syndicalists and the role of the International Brigades. This collection of essays published on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, not only places the events and experiences studied within the context of the ‘new state’ of Franco’s Spain, but also offers timely fresh insights into wider European and international issues during what was a period of seismic change in world history.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

"Readers are sure to find much of interest in this substantial and diverse collection." - Tom Buchanan, Kellogg College, Oxford

ISBN: 9781138059818

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

348 pages