The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction

Author/Contributor(s):	Graham, Helen
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	06/23/2005
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This compact volume integrates the political, social, and cultural history of the Spanish Civil War, illuminating the domestic and international context of the war for a general readership. In addition to tracing the course of events, the book locates the war's origins in the social and cultural anxieties provoked by a process of rapid and accelerating modernism taking place all over Europe. The book also examines the many political polemics to which the war has given rise, as well as all of the latest historical debates. It assesses the impact of the war on Spain's transition to democracy and on the country's contemporary political culture.