The Spanish Second Republic revisited
Subtitle: from democratic hopes to the Civil War (1931-1936)
By: edited by Fernando del Rey Reguillo and Manuel Álvarez Tardío
Series: Sussex studies in Spanish history
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Brighton; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781845194598
Subjects: Politics and government; History
Description: This volume brings together leading and innovative specialists to analyse the main obstacles to the consolidation of democracy in Spain and to debate the principal stereotypes of the traditional historiography of both left and right during the Spanish Civil War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A critical overview of the Second Spanish Republic / Stanley G. Payne; title: Could the Second Republic have become a democracy? / Luis Arranz Notario; title: The socialists and revolution / Jose Manuel Macarro Vera; title: The CEDA : threat or opportunity? / Manuel Álvarez Tardío; title: The republican left and the defence of democracy, 1934-1936 / Gabriele Ranzato; title: A third way? : centrist politics under the Republic / Nigel Townson; title: The limits of democratization : elections and political culture / Roberto Villa García; title: The mutation of Falangism, 1934-1936 / José Antonio Parejo Fernández; title: Revolution or republic? : the Spanish Communist Party / Tim Rees; title: Policies of exclusion during the Second Republic : a view from the grass roots / Fernando del Rey Reguillo; title: Old wine in new bottles : the historiography of repression in Spain during and after the Spanish Civil War / Julius Ruiz; title: New perspectives on the Civil Guard and the Second Republic, 1931-1936 / Gerald Blaney; title: Intellectuals and the republic / Javier Zamora; title: On the irrelevance of fascism in Spain / Pedro Carlos González Cuevas.