The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

by Edited by Chris Ealham , Michael Richards

• ISBN13: 9780521173209
• ISBN10: 0521173205
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This 2005 book explores the ideas and culture surrounding the cataclysmic civil war that engulfed Spain from 1936 to 1939. It features specially commissioned articles from leading historians in Spain, Britain and the US which examine the complex interaction of national and local factors, contributing to the shape and course of the war. They argue that the 'splintering of Spain' resulted from the myriad cultural cleavages of society in the 1930s that are investigated here at both local and national levels. Thus, this book tends to see the civil war less as a single great conflict between two easily identifiable sets of ideas, social classes or ways of life than historians have previously done. The Spanish tragedy, at the level of everyday life, was shaped by many tensions, both those that were formally political and those that were to do with people's perceptions and understanding of the society around them.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
List of maps	p. xi
List of contributors	p. xii
Preface	p. xiv
List of abbreviations	p. xvi
Chronology	p. xviii
Maps showing the division of Spain, 1936-1939	p. xxiv
History, memory and the Spanish civil war: recent perspectives	p. 1
Overviews: violence, nationalism and religion
The symbolism of violence during the Second Republic in Spain, 1931-1936	p. 23
Nations in arms against the invader: on nationalist discourses during the Spanish civil war	p. 45
'The keys of the kingdom': religious violence in the Spanish civil war, July-August 1936	p. 68
Republican political and cultural projects
Catalan populism in the Spanish civil war	p. 93
The myth of the maddened crowd: class, culture and space in the revolutionary urbanist project in Barcelona, 1936-1937	p. 111
The culture of empowerment in Gijón, 1936-1937	p. 133
Identities on the Francoist side
Old symbols, new meanings: mobilising the rebellion in the summer of 1936	p. 159
'Spain's Vendée': Carlist identity in Navarre as a mobilising model	p. 177
'Presenting arms to the Blessed Sacrament': civil war and Semana Santa in the city of Málaga, 1936-1939	p. 196
Notes	p. 223
Index	p. 271
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