Royal Spain of Today
Title | Royal Spain of Today PDF eBook |
Author | Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 916 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Spain |
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Spain and Portugal Today
Title | Spain and Portugal Today PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Ortiz Griffin |
Publisher | Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
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Annotation. Examines the parallel political, social, and cultural struggles of Spain and Portugal during the last quarter of the 20th century. The discussion covers each country in turn, ranging over such topics as the transition to democracy; political stabilization; monarchical, military, and church-related institutions; the economy; crime, feminism, and social structure; the arts and high culture; popular culture; and international relations. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Spanish Politics Today
Title | Spanish Politics Today PDF eBook |
Author | John Gibbons |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780719049460 |
In comparison to many other areas of European political studies, contemporary Spain has received less attention than it deserves. This book aims to fill this gap in at least two important respects. It not only describes and analyzes the institutions of government on the Spanish political landscape, but also explores the distinctive traits of its policy processes at regional, national and European levels. Many of the issues which have dominated Spanish political agendas in the 1980s and 1990s are discussed throughout this book.
Spain Yesterday and Today. By a Lady
Title | Spain Yesterday and Today. By a Lady PDF eBook |
Author | LADY. |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1840 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Spain Today
Title | Spain Today PDF eBook |
Author | Mauricio Wiesenthal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Concertos (Organ) |
ISBN | 9788474241204 |
The War and Its Shadow
Title | The War and Its Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Graham |
Publisher | Apollo Books |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781845195113 |
In Spain today, its civil war remains 'the past that will not pass away.' The long shadow of World War II also brings back to central focus its most disquieting aspects, revealing to a broader public the stark truth already known by specialist historians - that in Spain, as in the many other internecine wars that would soon convulse Europe, war was waged predominantly upon civilians: millions were killed, not by invaders and strangers, but by their own compatriots, including their own neighbors. Across the continent, Hitler's war of territorial expansion after 1938 would detonate a myriad 'irregular wars' of culture, as well as of politics, which took on a 'cleansing' intransigence, as those driving them sought to make 'homogeneous' communities, whether ethnic, political, or religious. So much of this was prefigured with primal intensity in Spain in 1936, where, on July 17-18, a group of army officers rebelled against the socially-reforming Republic. Saved from almost certain failure by Nazi and Fascist military intervention, and by a British inaction amounting to complicity, these army rebels unleashed a conflict in which civilians became the targets of mass killing. The new military authorities authorized and presided over an extermination of those sectors associated with Republican change, especially those who symbolized cultural change and thus posed a threat to old ways of being and thinking: progressive teachers, self-educated workers, 'new' women. In the Republican zone, resistance to the coup also led to the murder of civilians. This extrajudicial and communal killing in both zones would fundamentally make new political and cultural meanings that changed Spain's political landscape forever. The War and Its Shadow explores the origins, nature, and long-term consequences of this exterminatory war in Spain, charting the resonant forms of political, social, and cultural resistance to it and the memory/legacy these have left behind in Europe and beyond. Not least is our growing sense of the enormity of what, in greater European terms, the Republican war effort resisted: Nazi adventurism and the continent-wide wars of ethnic and political 'purification' it would unleash.
After the Revolution
Title | After the Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Diego Abad de Santillán |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | Spain |
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