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Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain


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The Cañada 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.

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Beyond Folklore? The Franco Regime and Ethnoterritorial Diversity in Spain, 1930–1975

Beyond Folklore?: The Franco Regime and Ethnoterritorial Diversity in Spain, 1930–1975

1st Edition

By Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
December 19, 2023

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 ...

Radical Basque Nationalist-Irish Republican Relations A History

Radical Basque Nationalist-Irish Republican Relations: A History

1st Edition

By Niall Cullen
December 14, 2023

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

Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War

1st Edition

Edited By Raanan Rein, Susanne Zepp-Zwirner
November 23, 2023

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...

Rethinking the History of Democracy in Spain

Rethinking the History of Democracy in Spain

1st Edition

Edited By Antonio Herrera, Francisco Acosta
November 22, 2023

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, ...

The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24 Anguish and Enthusiasm

The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24: Anguish and Enthusiasm

1st Edition

By Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez
October 02, 2023

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 ...

Crosses of Memory and Oblivion The Monuments to the Fallen in the Spanish Civil War (1936-2022)

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
July 31, 2023

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 ...

Democracy and Sovereignty in Spain Conceptual Innovation in the Spanish Constituent Assembly of 1931

Democracy and Sovereignty in Spain: Conceptual Innovation in the Spanish Constituent Assembly of 1931

1st Edition

By Francisco J. Bellido
March 03, 2023

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

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

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

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

Falangist and National Catholic Women in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939

1st Edition

By Angela Flynn
March 11, 2020

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

Nineteenth Century Spain: A New History

1st Edition

By Mark Lawrence
June 24, 2019

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 ...

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