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Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain


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The Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies is part of the London School of Economics. It is widely recognised as Europe's most important centre for research and post-graduate teaching on contemporary Spain. Interdisciplinary in nature this series includes the best new work being done both inside and outside the centre as well as translations of existing studies.

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The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24 Anguish and Enthusiasm

The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24: Anguish and Enthusiasm

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By Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez
October 02, 2023

The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24 explores the impact of the Russian Revolution on the world’s most powerful anarchist movement, the Spanish National Confederation of Labour. The monograph traces the curve of euphoria followed by scepticism that characterized anarchist ...

Crosses of Memory and Oblivion The Monuments to the Fallen in the Spanish Civil War (1936-2022)

Crosses of Memory and Oblivion: The Monuments to the Fallen in the Spanish Civil War (1936-2022)

1st Edition

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By Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco
July 31, 2023

This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the Civil War, Francoism and the ...

Democracy and Sovereignty in Spain Conceptual Innovation in the Spanish Constituent Assembly of 1931

Democracy and Sovereignty in Spain: Conceptual Innovation in the Spanish Constituent Assembly of 1931

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By Francisco J. Bellido
March 03, 2023

This book delves into the conceptual changes produced by the Spanish constitutional debate held between 27 August and 9 December 1931. Taking place at the beginning of Spain’s Second Republic, those parliamentary deliberations brought about significant novelties in the political vocabulary. ...

Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

1st Edition

By Javier Rodrigo
January 09, 2023

In this highly important book, Javier Rodrigo examines the role of Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. Fascist Italy’s intervention in the Spanish Civil War to provide material, strategic, and diplomatic assistance led to Italy becoming a belligerent in the conflict. Following...

Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain The Building of the Nation-State, 1780–1931

Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain: The Building of the Nation-State, 1780–1931

1st Edition

Edited By David San Narciso, Margarita Barral Martínez, Carolina Armenteros
May 30, 2022

Bringing together the work of top specialists and emerging scholars in the field, this volume is the first book-length study of the rapport between liberalism and the Spanish monarchy over the long nineteenth century in any language. It is at once a general overview and a set of original ...

War in Spain Appeasement, Collective Insecurity, and the Failure of European Democracies Against Fascism

War in Spain: Appeasement, Collective Insecurity, and the Failure of European Democracies Against Fascism

1st Edition

By David Jorge
May 30, 2022

This work covers the international importance of the War in Spain through the two organizations that marked the multilateral action towards the conflict: The League of Nations and the Non-Intervention Committee. France and the United Kingdom diverted both deliberations as well as decision-making ...

Falangist and National Catholic Women in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939

Falangist and National Catholic Women in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939

1st Edition

By Angela Flynn
March 11, 2020

Although there is an established historiography on women’s roles during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9), little has been written on Nationalist women in the Republican-held zones. Women were the anti-Republican resisters of the first hour in the capital but they have been largely overlooked in the ...

Nineteenth Century Spain A New History

Nineteenth Century Spain: A New History

1st Edition

By Mark Lawrence
June 24, 2019

Nineteenth century Spain deserves wider readership. Bedevilled by lost empires, wars, political instability and frustrated modernisation, the country appeared backward in relation to northern Europe and even in relation to much of its own geographical periphery. This new history, the first survey ...

Claiming the City and Contesting the State Squatting, Community Formation and Democratization in Spain (1955–1986)

Claiming the City and Contesting the State: Squatting, Community Formation and Democratization in Spain (1955–1986)

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By Inbal Ofer
August 14, 2018

The present book analyzes the relationship between internal migration, urbanization and democratization in Spain during the period of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975) and Spain's transition to democracy (1975-1982). Specifically, the book explores the production and management of...

Medicine and Conflict The Spanish Civil War and its Traumatic Legacy

Medicine and Conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its Traumatic Legacy

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By Sebastian Browne
August 14, 2018

This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the conflict. Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story, which has not always ...

Revolution and the State Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

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By Danny Evans
April 26, 2018

This book analyses the processes of revolution and state reconstruction that took place in the Republican zone during the Spanish civil war. It focuses on the radical anarchists who sought to advance the revolutionary agenda. Their activity came into conflict with the leaders of the ...

Guns, Culture and Moors Racial Perceptions, Cultural Impact and the Moroccan Participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Guns, Culture and Moors: Racial Perceptions, Cultural Impact and the Moroccan Participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

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By Ali Al Tuma
April 09, 2018

The history of the Moroccan troops in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) is the story of an encounter between two culturally and ethnically different people, and the attempts by both sides, Moroccan and Spanish, to take control of this contact. This book shows to what extent colonials could ...

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