1st Edition
The People’s Dictator The Life of General Primo de Rivera
By Alejandro Quiroga
Copyright 2025
370 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
370 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book is the first major biography of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain between 1923 and 1930, who played a key role in the shaping of a counterrevolutionary Europe in the interwar era.
Following new historiographical trends, this book combines biographical experiences of the dictator with a sociopolitical reading of the dictatorship to reflect on the configuration of... Read more
Introduction – Who and When
1. Rebel Without a Cause (1870–1920)
2. The Forging of a Conspirator (1920–1923)
3. The Military Directory (1923–1925)
4. The Civil Directory (1925–1930)
5. Caudillo of the Nation: Propaganda, Masculinity and the Leadership Cult
6. The Nationalisation of the Masses
7. Fall and Death of a Dictator
8. What Happened Here?: History and Memory of a Dictator and His Dictatorship
Biography
Alejandro Quiroga is Professor of Spanish History at Newcastle University and Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalisms and national identities in Europe.
