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.
Operation Bribes: How Winston Churchill and Juan March Bought Franco’s Generals
1st Edition
By Ángel Viñas
November 29, 2024
This forensic study of recently opened documents in Britain’s National Archives reveals for the first time the details of an officially unnamed secret operation authorised by Winston Churchill in 1940 to keep Spain neutral in the Second World War through the financial manipulation of Spanish ...
Democracy and Sovereignty in Spain: Conceptual Innovation in the Spanish Constituent Assembly of 1931
1st Edition
By Francisco J. Bellido
October 07, 2024
This book delves into the conceptual changes produced by the Spanish constitutional debate held between 27 August and 9 December 1931. Taking place at the beginning of Spain’s Second Republic, those parliamentary deliberations brought about significant novelties in the political vocabulary. ...
Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
1st Edition
By Javier Rodrigo
January 09, 2023
In this highly important book, Javier Rodrigo examines the role of Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. Fascist Italy’s intervention in the Spanish Civil War to provide material, strategic, and diplomatic assistance led to Italy becoming a belligerent in the conflict. Following...
Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain: The Building of the Nation-State, 1780–1931
1st Edition
Edited
By David San Narciso, Margarita Barral Martínez, Carolina Armenteros
May 30, 2022
Bringing together the work of top specialists and emerging scholars in the field, this volume is the first book-length study of the rapport between liberalism and the Spanish monarchy over the long nineteenth century in any language. It is at once a general overview and a set of original ...
War in Spain: Appeasement, Collective Insecurity, and the Failure of European Democracies Against Fascism
1st Edition
By David Jorge
May 30, 2022
This work covers the international importance of the War in Spain through the two organizations that marked the multilateral action towards the conflict: The League of Nations and the Non-Intervention Committee. France and the United Kingdom diverted both deliberations as well as decision-making ...
Falangist and National Catholic Women in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939
1st Edition
By Angela Flynn
September 30, 2021
Although there is an established historiography on women’s roles during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9), little has been written on Nationalist women in the Republican-held zones. Women were the anti-Republican resisters of the first hour in the capital but they have been largely overlooked in the ...
Nineteenth Century Spain: A New History
1st Edition
By Mark Lawrence
March 31, 2021
Nineteenth century Spain deserves wider readership. Bedevilled by lost empires, wars, political instability and frustrated modernisation, the country appeared backward in relation to northern Europe and even in relation to much of its own geographical periphery. This new history, the first survey ...
Guns, Culture and Moors: Racial Perceptions, Cultural Impact and the Moroccan Participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
1st Edition
By Ali Al Tuma
August 14, 2020
The history of the Moroccan troops in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) is the story of an encounter between two culturally and ethnically different people, and the attempts by both sides, Moroccan and Spanish, to take control of this contact. This book shows to what extent colonials could ...
Medicine and Conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its Traumatic Legacy
1st Edition
By Sebastian Browne
June 30, 2020
This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the conflict. Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story, which has not always ...
Claiming the City and Contesting the State: Squatting, Community Formation and Democratization in Spain (1955–1986)
1st Edition
By Inbal Ofer
August 14, 2018
The present book analyzes the relationship between internal migration, urbanization and democratization in Spain during the period of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975) and Spain's transition to democracy (1975-1982). Specifically, the book explores the production and management of...
Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
1st Edition
By Danny Evans
April 26, 2018
This book analyses the processes of revolution and state reconstruction that took place in the Republican zone during the Spanish civil war. It focuses on the radical anarchists who sought to advance the revolutionary agenda. Their activity came into conflict with the leaders of the ...
Mass Killings and Violence in Spain, 1936-1952: Grappling with the Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Anderson, Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco
January 06, 2017
Historians have only recently established the scale of the violence carried out by the supporters of General Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. An estimated 88,000 unidentified victims of Francoist violence remain to be exhumed from mass graves and given a dignified burial,...