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Book SynopsisThis 2005 book explores the ideas and culture surrounding the Spanish Civil War. Leading historians offer new interpretations of the civil war and argue that it reflected the cultural cleavages in 1930s society rather than a single great conflict between two easily identifiable sets of ideas, classes or ways of life.
Trade Review"The anthology sheds light on important aspects of modern Spanish history that have until now received little attention, and the analyses of its contributors are often interesting and astute. It thus has much to offer historians of modern Spain and of civilian wartime culture and ideologies." -Geoffrey Jensen, Virginia Military Institute, The Journal of Military History
"...a very useful collection for specialists." --Nathanael Greene, Wesleyan University, History: Review of New Books
Table of Contents1. History, memory and the Spanish civil war: recent perspectives Chris Ealham and Michael Richards; Part I. Overviews: Violence, Nationalism and Religion: 2. The symbolism of violence during the Second Republic in Spain, 1931–1936 Eduardo Gonzalez Calleja; 3. Nations in arms against the invader: on nationalism discourses during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–9 Xose-Manoel Núnez Seixas; 4. 'The keys of the Kingdom': religious violence in the Spanish Civil War, July–August 1936 Mary Vincent; Part II. Republican Political and Cultural Projects: 5. Catalan populism in the Spanish civil war Enric Ucelay- Da Cal; 6. The myth of the maddened crowd: class, culture and space in the revolutionary project in Barcelona 1936–37 Chris Ealham; 7. The culture of empowering in Gijón, 1936–37 Pamela Radcliff; Part III. Identities on the Francoist Side: 8. Old symbols, new meanings: mobilising the rebellion in the summer of 1936 Rafael Cruz Martinez; 9. 'Spain's Vendee': Carlist identity in Navarre as a mobilising model Francisco Javier Caspistegui; 10. 'Presenting arms to the Blessed Sacrament': civil war and Semana Santa in the city of Málaga, 1936–39 Michael Richards.
