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Historians have only recently established the scale of the violence
carried out by the supporters of General Franco during and after
the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. An estimated 88,000
unidentified victims of Francoist violence remain to be exhumed
from mass graves and given a dignified burial, and for decades, the
history of these victims has also been buried. This volume brings
together a range of Spanish and British specialists who offer an
original and challenging overview of this violence. Contributors
not only examine the mass killings and incarcerations, but also
carefully consider how the repression carried out in the government
zone during the Civil War - long misrepresented in Francoist
accounts - seeped into everyday life. A final section explores ways
of facing Spain's recent violent past.
Historians have only recently established the scale of the violence
carried out by the supporters of General Franco during and after
the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. An estimated 88,000
unidentified victims of Francoist violence remain to be exhumed
from mass graves and given a dignified burial, and for decades, the
history of these victims has also been buried. This volume brings
together a range of Spanish and British specialists who offer an
original and challenging overview of this violence. Contributors
not only examine the mass killings and incarcerations, but also
carefully consider how the repression carried out in the government
zone during the Civil War - long misrepresented in Francoist
accounts - seeped into everyday life. A final section explores ways
of facing Spain's recent violent past.
At least 200,000 people died from hunger or malnutrition-related
diseases in Spain during the 1940s. This book provides a political
explanation for the famine and brings together a broad range of
academics based in Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States and
Australia to achieve this. Topics include the political causes of
the famine, the physical and social consequences, the ways
Spaniards tried to survive, the regime's reluctance to accept
international relief, the politics of cooking at a time of famine,
and the memory of the famine. The volume challenges the silence and
misrepresentation that still surround the famine. It reveals the
reality of how people perished in Spain because the Francoist
authorities instituted a policy of food self-sufficiency (or
autarky): a system of price regulation which placed restrictions on
transport as well as food sales. The contributors trace the massive
decline in food production which followed, the hoarding which took
place on an enormous scale and the vast and deeply iniquitous black
market that subsequently flourished at a time when salaries plunged
to 50% below their levels in 1936: all contributing factors in the
large-scale atrocity explored fully here for the first time.
Right-Wing Spain in the Civil War Era explores the lives of the
leading Spanish conservatives in the turbulent period 1914-1945.
The volume is a collection of biographies of the most important
figures of the Spanish Right during the last years of the
Restoration (1914-1923), the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera
(1923-1930), the Second Republic (1931-1936), the Civil War
(1936-39) and the early years of the Franco regime (1939-45). This
book brings together a number of leading historians of
twentieth-century Spain. By adopting a biographical approach, the
volume aims at providing a new insight of the origins, development
and aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Contrary to the traditional
view, Right-Wing Spain in the Civil War Era shows a diverse and
fragmented Spanish right which, far from being isolated, was
profoundly influenced by German Nazism, Italian Fascism and French
Traditionalism. This remarkable and innovative collection of essays
will be welcomed by students and lecturers of Spanish history
alike.
At least 200,000 people died from hunger or malnutrition-related
diseases in Spain during the 1940s. This book provides a political
explanation for the famine and brings together a broad range of
academics based in Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States and
Australia to achieve this. Topics include the political causes of
the famine, the physical and social consequences, the ways
Spaniards tried to survive, the regime's reluctance to accept
international relief, the politics of cooking at a time of famine,
and the memory of the famine. The volume challenges the silence and
misrepresentation that still surround the famine. It reveals the
reality of how people perished in Spain because the Francoist
authorities instituted a policy of food self-sufficiency (or
autarky): a system of price regulation which placed restrictions on
transport as well as food sales. The contributors trace the massive
decline in food production which followed, the hoarding which took
place on an enormous scale and the vast and deeply iniquitous black
market that subsequently flourished at a time when salaries plunged
to 50% below their levels in 1936: all contributing factors in the
large-scale atrocity explored fully here for the first time.
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