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Spanish Civil War Reaction Revolution and Revenge

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ISBN-10: 0393329879

ISBN-13: 9780393329872

Edition: 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Paul Preston

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The definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative. Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisco Franco's brutal (and, ultimately, extraordinarily durable) fascist dictatorship, Preston assesses the ways in which the Spanish Civil War presaged the Second World War that ensued so rapidly after it. The attempted social revolution in Spain awakened progressive hopes during the Depression, but the conflict quickly escalated into a new and horrific form of warfare. As Preston…    
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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.54" wide x 8.23" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Paul Preston manages the recently created national Research and Training Center on Families of Adults with Disabilities, located at Through the Looking Glass, a nonprofit organization in Berkeley, California. He is also Research Associate in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco.

Acknowledgements
List of Plates
Map of Spain
Preface
Introduction: The Civil War Seventy Years On
A Divided Society: Spain Before 1931
The Leftist Challenge, 1931-1933
Confrontation and Conspiracy, 1934-1936
'The Map of Spain Bleeds': From Coup d'Etat to Civil War
'Behind the Gentleman's Agreement': The Great Powers Betray Spain
'Madrid is the Heart': The Central Epic
Politics Behind the Lines: Reaction and Terror in the City of God
Politics Behind the Lines: Revolution and Terror in the City of the Devil
Defeat by Instalments
Franco's Peace
Epilogue
Principal Characters
Glossary
List of Abbreviations
Biographical Essay
Index