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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gerald Brenan |
ISBN: | 0521398274 9780521398275 |
OCLC Number: | 38930004 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1950. With new foreword. |
Description: | xx, 384 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Chronological table; Political divisions; Part I. The Ancien Regime 1874-1931: 1. The Restoration, 1884-98; 2. The parliamentary regime and the Catalan question, 1898-1909; 3. The Liberals and the Church; 4. The army and the Syndicalist struggle in Barcelona 1916-23; 5. The dictatorship; Part II. The Condition of the Working Classes: 6. The Agrarian question; 7. The Anarchists; 8. The Anarcho-syndicalists; 9. The Carlists; 10. The Socialists; Part III. The Republic: 11. The Constituent Cortes; 12. The Bienio Negro; 13. The Popular Front; 14. Epilogue-the Civil War; Three sketch maps; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. |
Responsibility: | by Gerald Brenan. |
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' ... shows the expert, subtle-minded and sometimes cynically truthful, in his quest of what really has created modern Spain ... careful, sympathetic and judicial'. Cyril Connolly The Observer "Written with wit, lucidity and a Gibbon-like sweep--as well as a human detail earned by years of living in southern Spain--it was an inspiration to such later historians as Raymond Carr and Hugh Thomas." Los Angeles Times Book Review Read more...
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