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Democracy, Deeds and Dilemmas - Support for the Spanish Republic within British Civil Society, 1936-1939 (Hardcover)
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Democracy, Deeds and Dilemmas - Support for the Spanish Republic within British Civil Society, 1936-1939 (Hardcover)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) the British public raised
an estimated one to two million pounds for Republican Spain, mostly
through small individual donations at a time when large parts of
Britain were experiencing severe economic depression. Across the
country people were moved by the plight of Spain, a land in which
most had never set foot. The response was quintessentially British;
through picnics, whist drives, concerts, dances and rambling
expeditions, the war in Spain became embedded in British social and
cultural life. Innovative fundraising campaigns ran alongside
lectures, film screenings and exhibitions, engaging people with the
Spanish conflict. But it was a fragile alliance of progressive
opinion, for those involved often had very different
interpretations of the political significance of the war and of the
Republics fight for a broadly defined concept of democracy. The
book provides a fresh perspective on what is a well-trodden area of
scholarship. It places British humanitarian responses to Spain
within the context of Britains flourishing civic and popular
political culture, following the advent of mass democracy in 1928
as supported by the Equal Franchise Act. Emily Mason explores
engagement with Spain through three foci: the peace movement, the
co-operative movement and British Christians groups that were at
the heart of the humanitarian response, but which remain
underexplored in current historiography. The book explores how the
Republican cause resonated with notions of British identity and
with the crises that different groups perceived to be threatening
their world order. It explores the dilemma that non-intervention
posed for many Britons, and argues that humanitarian support for
the Spanish Republic offers an example of active citizenship and
popular internationalism in Britain between the wars. Published in
association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish
Studies.
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