The Routledge Handbook of the Spanish Civil War

Introduction
Javier Rodrigo, David Alegre and Miguel Alonso

Section 1: War on Civilians: Violence and Political Persecution

Introduction to Section 1: War on Civilians: Violence and Political Persecution
Javier Rodrigo

1. The Coup Tradition and Colonial Transfers
Alfonso Iglesias Amorín

2. The Backdrop and Preparations for the Coup
Eduardo González Calleja

3. The 18th of July: The Coup d’État and New Rebel Order
Ángel Alcalde

4. The 1936 Coup d’État: Mass Violence, Logics, Methods, and Narratives
Antonio Míguez Macho

5. Revolution and Power: Political Conflict in Republican Territory
Fernando Jiménez Herrera

6. Violence in Republican Territory
José Luis Ledesma

7. Gendered Violence
Adriana Cases

8. Perpetrators: Chains of Command, Agencies and the Logics of Eliminationist Violence
David Alegre

9. Killers: Cleansing Patrols and Revolutionary Order
Julius Ruiz

Section 2: International War: A European War in Spain

Introduction to Section 2: International War: A European War in Spain
Miguel Alonso

10. Spain in the Midst of Collective Insecurity: The League of Nations, Non-Intervention and Appeasement
David Jorge

11. The War of the Volunteers
Enrico Acciai

12. The War of Fascism
Morten Heiberg

13. The War of Nazism
Francisco Morente

14. The War of the USSR and International Antifascism
Josep Puigsech

15. The Spanish Protectorate in Morocco
Rocío Velasco de Castro

16. Weapons in Spain
Pierre Salmon

17. From the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War
Diego Gaspar Celaya

Section 3: Total War: Militarization, Armies, Occupation

Introduction to Section 3: Total War: Militarization, Armies, Occupation
Miguel Alonso

18. Rebel Mobilisation
Miguel Alonso and David Alegre

19. Improvisation and Commitment: The Mobilisation and Column Warfare of the Antifascist Militias
Daniel Raya

20. The Francoist War
Miguel Alonso

21. The Republican War, 1936–1939
Luis A. Ruiz Casero

22. Moroccan Troops in the Spanish Civil War
Ali Al Tuma

23. The Aerial Warfare
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum

24. An Occupation Regime: The Origins of Franco’s “New State” from a Transnational Perspective
Alejandro Pérez-Olivares

25. People on the Move: Refugees and Prisoners of War
Javier Rodrigo

26. The Economic Dimension of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
Alba Nueda Lozano

Section 4: War of Identities

Introduction to Section 4: War of Identities
David Alegre

27. Mobilisation, Sovereignty and Legitimacy: War in the Republican Rearguard
Carlos Píriz

28. The Rebel Home Front and Society at War
Julio Prada Rodríguez

29. Antifascism and Political Struggle
Henry Brown

30. A Civil War to Seize Power: The FET y de las JONS
Nicolás Sesma

31. Female Mobilisation
Begoña Barrera

32. Cities at War
Ainhoa Campos Posada

33. Organising Healthcare in a Total War
Margalida Roig Sureda

34. Humanitarianism and Civil War
Alba Martínez

Section 5: War on the Home Front

Introduction to Section 5: War on the Home Front
David Alegre

35. Nationalism and the Spanish Civil War
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

36. Religiosity, National Catholicism and Mobilisation
César Rina Simón

37. The Myth of Revolution: Utopias and Projects in Dispute
Assumpta Castillo Cañiz

38. Masculinities
Francisco Jiménez Aguilar

39. Femininities
María de los Llanos Pérez Gómez

40. Means of Escape: Everyday Ways to Detach from War
Jorge Marco

41. The Roma-Gitanos in the Spanish Civil War
Carolina García-Sanz and María Sierra

42. The War of Childhood
Gloria Román Ruiz

Section 6: War after the War

Introduction to Section 6: War after the War
Javier Rodrigo

43. The Long Civil War and the War against the Guerrilla
Arnau Fernández Pasalodos

44. Displacement and Political Exile
Rocío Negrete Peña

45. Intellectual Exile
Angela Moro

46. Autarky, Rationing, and Hunger
Claudio Hernández Burgos

47. Towards an Environmental Turn in the Historiography of the Spanish Civil War
Santiago Gorostiza

48. Necropolitics: From the Civil War to the Postwar
Laura Muñoz-Encinar

49. Commemorating the War after the War: The Memory of the “Crusade” during the Post-War Period (1939–1952)
Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco

50. The Archival Holdings for Democratic Memory in Context
Henar Alonso Rodríguez

Conclusion: The Spanish Civil War in the Era of European Civil Wars
Javier Rodrigo

Biography

David Alegre is Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His main field of study is war and mass violence. He has published several works, including his recent book Verdugos del 36: la maquinaria del terror en la Zaragoza golpista (2025).

Miguel Alonso is Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain. He has published several works on the history of war, mass violence and fascism in the modern era, the most recent of which is Cruzados sin gloria. El ejército de Franco en la Guerra Civil (2025).

Javier Rodrigo is Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is the author or editor of some twenty books, including Imagining Franco. History, Memory, Narratives (2025) and From Fascism to the Far Right: A Historical View (2026).