The Spanish Republic and Civil War - Softcover

Casanova, Julián

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052173780X ISBN 13: 9780521737807

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Spanish Civil War has gone down in history for the horrific violence that it generated. The climate of euphoria and hope that greeted the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy was utterly transformed just five years later by a cruel and destructive civil war. Here Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, offers a magisterial new account of this critical period in Spanish history. He exposes the ways in which the Republic brought into the open simmering tensions between Catholics and hardline anticlericalists, bosses and workers, Church and State, order and revolution. In 1936 these conflicts tipped over into the sacas, paseos and mass killings which are still passionately debated today. The book also explores the decisive role of the international instability of the 1930s in the duration and outcome of the conflict. Franco's victory was in the end a victory for Hitler and Mussolini and for dictatorship over democracy.

About this title

Book Description:

One of Spain's leading historians offers a magisterial new account of the critical period in Spanish history when the climate of euphoria and hope that greeted the overthrow of the monarchy in 1931 was transformed into a cruel, destructive civil war and, ultimately, a victory for dictatorship over democracy.

About the Author:

Julián Casanova is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is one of the leading experts on the Second Republic and Spanish Civil War and has published widely in Spanish and English translations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 052173780X
• ISBN 13: 9780521737807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372