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Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground - Repression, Victimization and Humiliation in a Small Andalusian Town -- The Human Consequences of the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)
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Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground - Repression, Victimization and Humiliation in a Small Andalusian Town -- The Human Consequences of the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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This book examines the human consequences (individual, social,
cultural, and economic) of civil war and political repression in
Castilleja del Campo, a town in southern Spain with barely more
than 600 inhabitants today. The narrow geographical focus allows
for a coherent chronological narrative with relevance to current
public issues such as the unequal distribution of wealth, political
polarisation, the violation of human rights, government
surveillance of civilian populations, and extra-legal detentions,
torture and executions. The declarations of eyewitnesses are
complemented by personal documents, contemporary newspaper
accounts, and documents from the town's municipal archive and other
archives in the province of Seville. The work presents the events
from the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931
onward from multiple points of view and analyses the interactions
among a gallery of characters: Republican and pro-Franco mayors and
councilmen; union leaders and affiliates; members of the
fascist-inspired Spanish Falange; the schoolteacher; the priest;
widows and orphans of the men who were shot; administrators and
managers of the estates of the nobles; shaved women paraded through
the streets; combatants; day labourers; civil guards; black
marketeers; prisoners. Placing these characters and events in their
provincial, regional, and national context, the town becomes a
microcosm that reflects the experience of Spain during those
traumatic years. Published in association with the Canada Blanch
Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.
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