The splintering of Spain : cultural history and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 / edited by Chris Ealham and Michael Richards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ealham, Chris, editor.

Richards, Michael, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 2005 book explores the ideas and culture surrounding the cataclysmic civil war that engulfed Spain from 1936 to 1939. It features specially commissioned articles from leading historians in Spain, Britain and the US which examine the complex interaction of national and local factors, contributing to the shape and course of the war. They argue that the 'splintering of Spain' resulted from the myriad cultural cleavages of society in the 1930s that are investigated here at both local and national levels. Thus, this book tends to see the civil war less as a single great conflict between two easily identifiable sets of ideas, social classes or ways of life than historians have previously done. The Spanish tragedy, at the level of everyday life, was shaped by many tensions, both those that were formally political and those that were to do with people's perceptions and understanding of the society around them.

Contents:

History, memory and the Spanish civil war: recent perspectives / Michael Richards, Chris Ealham

PART I. OVERVIEWS: VIOLENCE, NATIONALISM AND RELIGION

The symbolism of violence during the Second Republic in Spain, 1931-1936 / Eduardo González Calleja

Nations in arms against the invader: on nationalist discourses during the Spanish civil war / Xosé-Manoel Núñez Seixas

'The keys of the kingdom': religious violence in the Spanish civil war, July-August 1936 / Mary Vincent

PART II. REPUBLICAN POLITICAL AND CULTURAL PROJECTS

Catalan populism in the Spanish civil war / Enric Ucelay-Da Cal

The myth of the maddened crowd: class, culture and space in the revolutionary urbanist project in Barcelona, 1936-1937 / Chris Ealham

The culture of empowerment in Gijón, 1936-1937 / Pamela Radcliff

PART III. IDENTITIES ON THE FRANCOIST SIDE

Old symbols, new meanings: mobilising the rebellion in the summer of 1936 / Rafael Cruz

'Spain's Vendée': Carlist identity in Navarre as a mobilising model / Francisco Javier Caspistegui

'Presenting arms to the blessed sacrament': civil war and Semana Santa in the city of Málaga, 1936-1939 / Michael Richards.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-270) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14572-4

1-280-25604-4

0-511-13246-8

0-511-13263-8

0-511-20046-3

0-511-49702-4

0-511-30086-7

0-511-13209-3

OCLC:

62425202

Publisher Number:

9780521821780 (hbk.)