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1. Churchill and Spain

   The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940–1945

   Edited by Richard Wigg

   Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain

   This thoroughly researched, highly perceptive and utterly gripping study deals with an important aspect of Spanish and British history - Churchill's policy of appeasement toward the Franco regime in Spain. Wigg demonstrates that the tolerance shown toward Spain's wartime trading permitted the...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
2. Gunpowder and Incense

   The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War

   By Hilari Raguer

   Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain

   Now available in English for the first time, Gunpowder and Incense (translated from the Spanish La Pólvora y el Incienso) chronicles the role of the Church in Spanish politics, looking in particular at the Spanish Civil War. Unlike most books on the subject, Hilari Raguer looks beyond the...

   Published October 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. Catalan Nationalism

   Francoism, Transition and Democracy

   By Montserrat Guibernau

   Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain

   Are the Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism within the EU? How does globalization impact upon the survival and development of nations without states such as Catalonia? Will increasing numbers of immigrants transform...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. Ethnicity and Violence

   The Case of Radical Basque Nationalism

   By Diego Muro

   Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain

   This book provides a genealogy of radical Basque nationalism and the means by which this complex, often violent, political movement has reinforced Basque identity. Radical nationalists are mobilized by a shared frame of reference where ethnicity and violence are intertwined in a nostalgic...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Foundations of Civil War

   Revolution, Social Conflict and Reaction in Liberal Spain, 1916–1923

   By Francisco J. Romero Salvado

   Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain

   This book analyzes the decay of Liberal politics in Spain as the regional version of the general crisis that engulfed most of Europe between 1916 and 1923. Romero enriches the important wider debate about this watershed period of European history when, in the face of unprecedented mass...

   Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition

   The Spanish Model

   Edited by Diego Muro, Gregorio Alonso

   Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain

   Most accounts on the Spanish transition to democracy of the late 1970s are based on a false dilemma. Its simplest formulation could be: was it the pressure from below, i.e. the organized working classes, students and neighbors associations that triggered political change; or was the elite...

   Published November 21st 2010 by Routledge
7. The Francoist Military Trials

   Terror and Complicity,1939-1945

   By Peter Anderson

   Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain

   In Spain between 1936-1945, the Franco regime carried out one Europe’s more brutal but less remembered programs of mass repression. Many were murdered by the regime’s death squads, and in some areas Francoists also subjected up to 15% of the population to summary military trials. Here many suffered...

   Published September 7th 2009 by Routledge
8. Medicine and Warfare

   Spain, 1936–1939

   By Nicholas Coni

   Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain

   This original work examines the differences in medical advances on the two sides of the Spanish Civil War. Covering all aspects of medical treatment during the war, Coni covers new ground with great aplomb and delivers a book which will interest scholars involved with medical history as...

   Published August 1st 2007 by Routledge
9. Anarchism, the Republic and Civil War in Spain: 1931-1939

   By Julián Casanova

   Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain

   The Spanish Civil War became the setting for the struggle between revolution and counter-revolution as well as being, for many outsiders, the place of armed conflict between the forces of democracy and fascism. This book is a path-breaking synthesis of political, social and cultural history...

   Published January 30th 2005 by Routledge
10. Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain

    By Christian Leitz

    Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain

    Throughout his lifetime General Franco proudly maintained the myth of Spain's neutrality during World War II. In practice, Franco came very close to making Spain a member of the Axis in war and remained an active supporter of the Nazi war effort. This support derived from a mixture of ideological...

    Published December 29th 2004 by Routledge