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The Republic besieged : Civil War in Spain 1936-1939
- Title
- The Republic besieged : Civil War in Spain 1936-1939 / edited by Paul Preston and Ann L. Mackenzie.
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DP269 .R418 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 324 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- There can be little doubting the significance of the Spanish Civil War, both as 'the last great cause' and as a defining moment on the road to the Second World War. In Spain, Mussolini and Hitler drew together in the Rome-Berlin Axis as they witnessed the pusillanimity of the democratic powers. This extensive collection of new research by an international team of scholars engages with the two central facts about the Spanish Civil War: in its origins, it was a series of Spanish social wars; and in its course and outcome, it was an episode in a greater European Civil War that ended in 1945. Uniquely focusing on the Spanish and international reasons for the ultimate defeat of the Second Republic, the chapters of this book show how, for three years, the Republic was besieged from without and from within: from outside, by the forces of international Fascism and their unwitting accomplices among the democratic states; and, from inside, by the forces of the extreme Left whose members put their own revolutionary ambitions before the effort to build a centralized war effort.
- Subjects
- Spain
- Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939
- Geschichte 1936-1939
- 1936-1939
- Spanish Civil War > (Spain : > 1936-1939)
- History
- Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939 > Participation, Foreign
- Espanya > Relacions exteriors > 1936-1939
- Espanya > Història > 1936-1939, Guerra Civil
- Espanya > Història > 1931-1939, Segona República
- Spanien
- Spaanse burgeroorlog
- Spanischer Bürgerkrieg > 1936-1939
- 15.70 history of Europe
- 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The gentle general : the official British perception of General Franco during the Spanish Civil War / Enrique Moradiellos -- Mussolini's Spanish adventure : from limited risk to war / Paul Preston -- Nazi Germany's intervention in the Spanish Civil War and the foundation of HISMA/ROWAK / Christian Leitz -- We are with you : solidarity and self-interest in Soviet policy towards Republican Spain, 1936-1939 / Denis Smyth -- Battleground of reputations : Ireland and the Spanish Civil War / R.A. Stradling -- From the summit to the abyss : the contradictions of individualism and collectivism in the Spanish anarchism / Chris Ealham -- War, modernity, and reform : the premiership of Juan Negrín, 1937-1939 / Helen Graham -- Civil War, violence, and the construction of Francoism / Michael Richards -- Obligación de opinar : the limits of pluralism in Manuel Azaña's La velada en Benicarló / James Whiston -- The grand camouflage : Julián Gorkin, Burnett Bolloten, and the Spanish Civil War / Herbert Rutledge Southworth.
- ISBN
- 0748608680
- 9780748608683
- 0748608613
- 9780748608614
- LCCN
- 97148474
- OCLC
- ocm35829614
- 35829614
- SCSB-14594337
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library