Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain
"Holguín's book makes a sophisticated argument about the cultural war in Spain and its relationship to the formation of national identity. In fact, her book is one of the first to make such a strong link.Creating Spaniardsmakes an important contribution to Spanish historiography and will undoubtedly be read more broadly."-Pamela Radcliff, University of California, San Diego"Sandie Holguín's account of cultural politics during the Second Republic illustrates the importance of the culture wars to the conflicts in Spain during the 1930s. Holguín describes the democratic companion to better-known cultural policies of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and revolutionary Mexico."-Adrian Shubert, York University