Research Catalog

Title

Ruptura : the impact of nationalism and extremism on daily life in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) / edited by Claudio Hernández Burgos.

Publication

• Eastbourne : Sussex Academic Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Hernández, Claudio, 1984-

Description

xiii, 288 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Despite more than 20,000 published books on the Spanish civil war, it remains the case that the social and cultural dimensions of the conflict have been relatively under-researched. Ruptura focuses on how nationalism, and extremist conceptions and projects, defined daily life experiences in both the battlefield and civilian cities and towns. A principal objective is to demonstrate that the civil war was not a struggle waged between ideologies disconnected from the preoccupations and daily lives of the Spanish people. A tripartite division of the chapter contributions - Construction of the war; Wartime experiences; Memory and legacies - brings to light the climate of violence, the social and symbolic transformations resulting from political divergence, and the widespread uncertainty that shaped the behavior, attitudes, lifestyles, practices and experiences of both combatants and civilians. New theoretical approaches on so-called 'war studies' are addressed and engaged with. Several contributions frame their analyses within the international context of radicalization and political violence of interwar Europe. However, attention to the European frame does not diminish the importance accorded throughout the volume to the events that occurred in Spain. Without an understanding of the development of extremist projects, ideologies and attitudes in their particular and international dimensions it is impossible to explain the atmosphere of severe social radicalization and the unprecedented levels of violence reached during and after the civil war. In present times, when the relationship of 'extremism' and nationalism to civil war is once again at the heart of public discourse and a preoccupation of media and governments, an historical perspective on these questions could not be more timely or necessary." --

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Propaganda, Spanish
• Radicalism > Spain > History > 20th century
• Nationalism > Spain > History > 20th century
• Nationalism
• Politics and government
• Propaganda
• Radicalism
• Spain > History > Propaganda. > Civil War, 1936-1939
• Spain > Politics and government > 1931-1939
• Spain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-284) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Claudio Hernández Burgos -- Construction of the war. Popular front violence: a prelude to civil war? / Eduardo González Calleja -- Civil warfare and nation building: comparative lessons from the Spanish Civil War / Javier Rodrigo -- The Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik conspiracy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 / Chris Bannister -- Martyrs old and new: the women's section and neo-Baroque imagery of patriotic immolation / Aurora Morcillo -- Experiences of the war. Making the 'new Spain': violence, nationalism and religion in the rebel zone, 1936-1939 / Claudio Hernández Burgos -- Reality shock: German pilots, Nazi propaganda and the Spanish Civil War / Stefanie Schüler-Springorum -- Individualist extremists in the Spanish Civil War: a social history / Michael Seidman -- Shifting loyalties? Basque, Catalan and Galician nationalist combatants in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 / Xosé M. Núñez Seixas -- Our extremism': the CNT from Anarcho-Bolshevism to Bolshevization, 1931-1937 / Daniel Evans -- Memories and legacies of the war. Democracy and the legacies of extremism / Antonio Cazorla.

Call Number

JFE 21-115

ISBN

• 1789760151
• 9781789760156

OCLC

1090175846

Title

Ruptura : the impact of nationalism and extremism on daily life in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) / edited by Claudio Hernández Burgos.

Publisher

Eastbourne : Sussex Academic Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-284) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Hernández, Claudio, 1984- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-115