The Spanish Republic and Civil War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521493888)

The Spanish Civil War has gone down in history for the horrific violence that it generated. The climate of euphoria and hope that greeted the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy was utterly transformed just five years later by a cruel and destructive civil war. Here Juli n Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, offers a magisterial new account of this critical period in Spanish history. He exposes the ways in which the Republic brought into the open simmering tensions between Catholics and hardline anticlericalists, bosses and workers, Church and State, order and revolution. In 1936 these conflicts tipped over into the sacas, paseos and mass killings which are still passionately debated today. The book also explores the decisive role of the international instability of the 1930s in the duration and outcome of the conflict. Franco's victory was in the end a victory for Hitler and Mussolini and for dictatorship over democracy.

Author: Juli疣 Casanova
ISBN-10: 0521493889
ISBN-13: 9780521493888
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2010
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2011