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Conspiracy, Coup detat and Civil War in Seville, 19361939 dissects
the conspiracy against the democratic Second Spanish Republic in
the context of the uprising and civil war in Seville, the capital
of Spains largest region, Andalusia, and the most populous urban
centre seized by the military rebels during the coup detat of July
1936. As the major industrial and economic centre in insurgent
Spain, Seville remains central to understanding the rebels
repressive project, for this Andalusian province witnessed the
highest number of extra-judicial assassinations throughout the war.
This is the first book in any language to bring together the
subject of the civil war in Seville, the career of one of the most
influential leaders of the rebel faction, General Queipo de Llano,
and Francoisms most resilient myth. It dismantles, one by one, a
series of carefully constructed narratives employed as rhetorical
weapons to justify both the rebellion and the murderous rule of
Queipo de Llano. The size and importance of the city meant that it
became a critical battleground in the struggle for political
legitimacy and it remains so for Spains on-going memory wars, a
series of public and academic disputes over the historical memory
of the Franco regime. Ruben Serem examines the socio-economic
context of Queipos great purge, the painful transition from
democracy to autocracy and the political nature of the generals
rule in Andalusia. In doing so, this work demonstrates how several
features of Queipos system of government were enthusiastically
embraced by the nascent Francoist state, hence Sevilles unenviable
status as a Laboratory of Terror.
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