British Women and the Spanish Civil War
Title | British Women and the Spanish Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Jackson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134471068 |
Through oral and written narratives, this book examines the interaction between women and the war in Spain, their motivation, the distinctive form of their involvment and the effect of the war on their individual lives. These themes are related to wider issues, such as the nature of memory and the role of women within the public sphere. The extent to which women engaged with this cause surpasses by far other instances of female mobilization in peace-time Britain. Such a phenomenon therefore can offer lessons to those who would wish to encourage a greater degree of interest amongst women in political activities today.
British Representations of the Spanish Civil War
Title | British Representations of the Spanish Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Shelmerdine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
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Shelmerdine shows that traditional notions in Britain of Spain as a country of bullfighting, bandits and flamenco were pervasive, and were significant in shaping wider UK government policy towards Spain in the period of the civil war. He assesses political perceptions of the 1930s Spanish scene such as race and ethnicity.
The British Government and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Title | The British Government and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Edwards |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 1979-06-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349040037 |
Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War
Title | Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Fyrth |
Publisher | Lawrence & Wishart Limited |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2008-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781905007875 |
Includes writing by women from Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand - and from unsung nurses and relief workers as well as celebrated writers. Bringing together extracts from memoirs, letters, diaries and poems, this collection provides an overview of the Spanish Civil War from the perspective of women participants.
British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Title | British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Baxell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2004-07-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134345763 |
During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15 International Brigadesasking: * Who were these volunteers? * Where did they come from? * Why did they go to Spain? * How much did they actually help the Spanish Republic? In contrast to recent revisionist interpretations, this work stresses the crucial importance of the war experience itself, rather than political ideology, in the understanding of the volunteers' role and experiences within the Spanish war. This book will be of essential interest to historians and those interested in the Spanish Civil War.
Unlikely Warriors
Title | Unlikely Warriors PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Baxell |
Publisher | Aurum |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2012-09-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1781310823 |
When a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain in July 1936, the Spanish Republic’s desperate pleas for assistance from the leaders of Britain and France fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent and beyond flocked to Spain’s aid, many to join the International Brigades. More than 2,500 of these men and women came from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, and contrary to popular myth theirs was not an army of adventurers, poets and public school idealists. Overwhelmingly they hailed from modest working class backgrounds, leaving behind their livelihoods and their families to fight in a brutal civil war on foreign soil. Some 500 of them never returned home. In this inspiring and moving oral history, Richard Baxell weaves together a diverse array of testimony to tell the remarkable story of the Britons who took up arms against General Franco. Drawing on his own extensive interviews with survivors, research in archives across Britain, Spain and Russia, as well as first-hand accounts by writers both famous and unknown, Unlikely Warriors presents a startling new interpretation of the Spanish Civil War and follows a band of ordinary men and women who made an extraordinary choice.
Britain and the Spanish Civil War
Title | Britain and the Spanish Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Buchanan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1997-08-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521455695 |
This book offers an interpretation of a foreign conflict that has had a greater impact on modern British politics than any other.