The Republic besieged : Civil War in Spain 1936-1939 / edited by Paul Preston and Ann L. Mackenzie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Preston, Paul, 1946-

Mackenzie, Ann L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939.

Spain.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 324 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1996.

Summary:

Research by an international team of scholars engages two central facts about the Spanish Civil War: in its origins it was a series of Spanish social wars; in its course and outcome it was an episode in a greater European Civil War that ended in 1945.

Contents:

The gentle general : the official British perception of General Franco during the Spanish Civil War / Enrique Moradiellos

Mussolini's Spanish adventure : from limited risk to war / Paul Preston

Nazi Germany's intervention in the Spanish Civil War and the foundation of HISMA/ROWAK / Christian Leitz

We are with you : solidarity and self-interest in Soviet policy towards Republican Spain, 1936-1939 / Denis Smyth

Battleground of reputations : Ireland and the Spanish Civil War / R.A. Stradling

From the summit to the abyss : the contradictions of individualism and collectivism in Spanish anarchism / Chris Ealham

War, modernity, and reform : the premiership of Juan Negrín, 1937-1939 / Helen Graham

Civil War, violence, and the construction of Francoism / Michael Richards

Obligación de opinar : the limits of pluralism in Manuel Azaña's La velada en Benicarló / James Whiston

The grand camouflage : Julián Gorkin, Burnett Bolloten, and the Spanish Civil War / Herbert Rutledge Southworth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748608680

0748608613

OCLC:

35829614