Twentieth-Century Spain: A History
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 7/3/2014
EAN 9781107602670, ISBN10: 110760267X
Paperback, 400 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This is a much-needed new overview of Spanish social and political history which sets developments in twentieth-century Spain within a broader European context. Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, and Carlos Gil Andrés chart the country's experience of democracy, dictatorship and civil war and its dramatic transformation from an agricultural and rural society to an industrial and urban society fully integrated into Europe. They address key questions and issues that continue to be discussed and debated in contemporary historiography, such as why the Republic was defeated, why Franco's dictatorship lasted so long and what mark it has left on contemporary Spain. This is an essential book for students as well as for anyone interested in Spain's turbulent twentieth century.
Part I. The Monarchy of Alfonso XIII
1. The legacy of a century
2. The 'revolution from above'
3. The crisis of the liberal regime
4. The Primo De Rivera years
Part II. The Second Republic
5. A parliamentary and constitutional Republic
6. A Republic beleaguered
7. 1936
the destruction of democracy
Part III. The Civil War
8. Spain split in two
9. Politics and arms
Part IV. Franco's Dictatorship
10. Franco's peace
11. 'The spiritual reserve of the world'
12. The death throes of Francoism
Part IV. Transition and Democracy
13. The transition
14. Democracy.