Spain at war : society, culture and mobilization, 1936-44 / edited by James Matthews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matthews, James, 1982- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Military.

Armed Forces.

History.

Social conditions.

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

Spain.

Spain--Armed Forces--Mobilization--History--20th century.

Spain--Social conditions--20th century.

Spain--History, Military--20th century.

Spain--Politics and government--1931-1939.

Politics and government.

Spain--Politics and government--1939-1945.

Physical Description:

xii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

Spain's principal and most devastating war during the twentieth century was, unusually for most of Europe, an internal conflict. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 two competing armies -- the insurgent and counterrevolutionary Nationalist Army and the Republican Popular Army -- engaged in a conflict to impose their version of Spanish identity and the right to shape the country's future. In its aftermath, Francoist Spain remained on a war footing for the duration of the Second World War. In spite of the unabated flood of books on the Spanish Civil War and its consequences, historians of Spain in the twentieth century have focused relatively little on the interaction of society and culture, and their roles in wartime mobilization. Spain at War addresses this omission through an examination of individual experiences of conflict and the mobilization of society. This edited volume acknowledges the agency of low-ranking individuals and the impact of their choices on the historical processes that shaped the conflict and its aftermath. In doing so, this new military history provides a more complex and nuanced understanding of Spain's most intense period of wartime cultural mobilization between the years 1936-44, and challenges traditional political accounts of the period. -- Back cover.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Wartime Mobilization of Spanish Society, 1936-44: An Introduction p. 1 / James Matthews

Part 1 Initial Mobilization

Chapter 2 'with Nothing But Our Bared Chests': Republican Armed Columns in the Militia Phase of the Spanish Civil War p. 15 / Michael Alpert and James Matthews

Chapter 3 Red Berets, Blue Shirts: Nationalist Militia Forces in the Spanish Civil War p. 33 / Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrio

Part 2 Mobilizing For Total War

Chapter 4 Foot Soldiers For the Two Spains: Conscript Experience During the Spanish Civil War p. 53 / James Matthews

Chapter 5 Desertion and Shirking in the Spanish Civil War: Man Versus Propaganda p. 71 / Pedro Corral

Chapter 6 The Reds and the Greens: Encounters Between Moroccan and Republican Enemies During the Spanish Civil War p. 87 / Ali Al Tuma

Chapter 7 Republican Spies and Their Civilian Informers in the Nationalist Rearguard During the Spanish Civil War p. 103 / Hernán Rodriguez Velasco

Part 3 Rearguard Areas and Actors

Chapter 8 Political Economies and Monetary Policies During the Spanish Civil War p. 123 / Michael Seidrnan

Chapter 9 Social Work in the Spanish Civil War p. 141 / Ángela Cenarro

Chapter 10 A Lost Generation? Children and the Spanish Civil War p. 158 / Verónica Sierra Bias

Chapter 11 Home-Front Cooking: Eating and Daily Life in Republican Cities During the Spanish Civil War p. 177 / Suzanne Dunai

Part 4 Legacies of the Spanish Civil War, 1939-44

Chapter 12 The Demobilization of Francoist and Republican War Veterans, 1939-44: A Great Divergence? p. 197 / Ángel Alcalde

Chapter 13 A Spanish Exception in a War of Extermination? The 'Blue Division' On the Eastern Front, 1941-4 p. 215 / Xosé M. Nunez Seixas

Chapter 14 'Boys Into Men': Martial Masculinity and Sexual Behaviour in Franco's Army, 1939-44 p. 233 / Ian Winchester.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1350030120

9781350030121

OCLC:

1017579917