1st Edition
El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939
Prologue: The Myth of Terrible 1. An Embattled Polity 2. Common Ground, Sacred Ground 3. Building Santa Barbara 4. El Dos de Abril 5. The Politics of Wrongdoing 6. Making and Unmaking Place Epilogue: A Theatrics of Death
Biography
Patricia A. Schechter teaches history at Portland State University in Oregon, U.S.A. She is the author of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930, which won the Keller-Sierra Book Prize. Her other books and public history projects have been recognized for their excellence by ACRL Choice and the Oral History Association, among others.
*Winner of the Western Association of Women Historians 2026 Gita Chaudhuri Prize*
'Patricia A. Schechter has written a wonderful story of what we often call modernization. Focusing on a small Andalusian town, Pueblonuevo (Córdoba), she aptly explains how the arrival of “progress” brought with it the emergence of new social groups, identities, and conflicts that deepened until the tragic outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. This is local history at its best' - Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Professor of History, Trent University, Canada.
‘Patricia A. Schechter has produced an engaging and thought-provoking biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a small mining settlement located north of Córdoba. Her social history serves to explore the pressures of industrial development and worker mobilization in a small Andalusian town from the time of its emergence as a mining camp seeking municipal status to the end of the Civil War. The book figures as one title in Routledge’s Microhistories series dedicated to uncovering macrohistorical themes at work in small-scale contexts. As the author explains, “Pueblonuevo is a case study in the global as local”’ - Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Volume 49:1.
