Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain
About the Book Series
The Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies is part of the London School of Economics. It is widely recognised as Europe's most important centre for research and post-graduate teaching on contemporary Spain. Interdisciplinary in nature this series includes the best new work being done both inside and outside the centre as well as translations of existing studies.
Spain, NATO and Democracy: The International Framework of Its Membership (1975–1986)
1st Edition
Edited
By Giulia Quaggio, Sergio Molina
March 05, 2027
Drawing on extensive archival research across twelve countries, this volume offers a fresh perspective on Spain’s entry into NATO after four decades of dictatorship and its subsequent consolidation within the Alliance at a time of renewed Cold War tensions. The book reveals how Spain’s democratic ...
The Rolando Attack and the History of ETA
1st Edition
By Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla, Ana Escauriaza Escudero
March 02, 2027
Through a rigorous examination of previously inaccessible judicial and police archives, this book reconstructs the bombing of the Rolando cafeteria in Madrid, the first indiscriminate massacre committed by the terrorist organization ETA, which claimed 13 lives and left over 70 injured. The authors ...
British Espionage and Franco in the Second World War: From Hendaye until Torch
1st Edition
By Luis Horrillo Sánchez
November 11, 2026
This book challenges narratives of Spain as a neutral party during the Second World War by demonstrating the role of British diplomacy and espionage in maintaining Spain’s neutrality even as it became another theatre of war, enabling the Allies to carry out their landing in North Africa in 1942. ...
The People’s Dictator: The Life of General Primo de Rivera
1st Edition
By Alejandro Quiroga
June 22, 2026
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 ...
The Egalitarian Dream in Revolutionary Catalonia: Land, Collectivisation, and Conflict During the Spanish Civil War
1st Edition
By Seán Danny Quinn
June 08, 2026
Radical initiatives to collectivise the land were defining features of the social revolution at the start of the Spanish Civil War. This book examines these agrarian collectives as integral to the upheaval that disabled the functions of the state across Catalonia, the revolution’s epicentre. Using ...
Working for Nazi Germany: Salvador Merino and Spanish Labor in the Third Reich
1st Edition
By Wayne H. Bowen
September 09, 2025
This book examines the leadership of Gerardo Salvador Merino, the chief director of the Sindicatos, fascist-controlled unions under the Franco Regime, and his plan to send 100,000 volunteer Spanish workers to Nazi Germany. Despite a degree of charisma and organizational effectiveness, the ambitions...
Beyond Folklore?: The Franco Regime and Ethnoterritorial Diversity in Spain, 1930–1975
1st Edition
By Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
July 31, 2025
This book analyzes the promotion of subnational identities undertaken by Spanish fascism and the Franco regime between 1930 and 1975, as well as their patterns of survival, accommodation and adaptation. It examines the proactive attitudes of the various actors committed to the dictatorship – from ...
The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24: Anguish and Enthusiasm
1st Edition
By Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez
July 31, 2025
The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24 explores the impact of the Russian Revolution on the world’s most powerful anarchist movement, the Spanish National Confederation of Labour. The monograph traces the curve of euphoria followed by scepticism that characterized anarchist ...
Rethinking the History of Democracy in Spain
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonio Herrera, Francisco Acosta
June 27, 2025
Focusing on the processes of political socialisation and democratisation that took place in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book brings together specialists who propose the need to rethink the contemporary history of democracy in Spain to build a new narrative. To do so, ...
Radical Basque Nationalist-Irish Republican Relations: A History
1st Edition
By Niall Cullen
May 27, 2025
This volume explains the genesis and development of the nexus between radical Basque nationalists and Irish republicans, how they have learnt from each other historically, and how they have utilised this relationship, at times, to their benefit. From medieval tales of shared origins to the violent...
Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War
1st Edition
Edited
By Raanan Rein, Susanne Zepp-Zwirner
April 14, 2025
This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less-known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Special attention is given to volunteers of different historical experiences, especially Jews, and voices from less-researched countries in...
Crosses of Memory and Oblivion: The Monuments to the Fallen in the Spanish Civil War (1936-2022)
1st Edition
By Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco
January 30, 2025
This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the civil war, Francoism, and the ...