The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939
by Gabriel Jackson
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At the time of its occurrence, the Spanish Civil War epitomized for the Western world the confrontation of democracy, fascism, and communism. An entire generation of Englishmen and Americans felt a deeper emotional involvement in that war than in any other world event of their lifetimes, including the Second World War. On the Continent, its "lessons," as interpreted by participants of many nationalities, have played an important role in the politics of both Western Europe and the People's show more Democracies. Everywhere in the Western world, readers of history have noted parallels between the Spanish Republic of 1931 and the revolutionary governments which existed in France and Central Europe during the year 1848. The Austrian revolt of October 1934, reminded participants and observers alike of the Paris Commune of 1871, and even the most politically unsophisticated observers could see in the Spain of 1936 all the ideological and class conflicts which had characterized revolutionary France of 1789 and revolutionary Russia of 1917.It is not surprising, therefore, that the worthwhile books on the Spanish Civil War have almost all emphasized its international ramifications and have discussed its political crises entirely in the vocabulary of the French and Russian revolutions. Relatively few of the foreign participants realized that the Civil War had arisen out of specifically Spanish circumstances. Few of them knew the history of the Second Spanish Republic, which for five years prior to the war had been grappling with the problems of what we now call an "underdeveloped nation. "In Spanish Republic and the Civil War, Gabriel Jackson expounds the history of the Second Republic and the Civil War primarily as seen from within Spain. show lessTags
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Entre los muchos libros dedicados a la historia de la Segunda república española y de la guerra civil, el de Gabriel Jackson destaca por dos razones: por ser el resultado de diez años de investigación y por ofrecernos una visión equilibrada de los acontecimientos, rehuyendo los prejuicios de la extrema derecha y la extrema izquierda. Ambas cualidades hacen que siga siendo en la actualidad la mejor visión de conjunto de aquellos años cruciales en la historia de la España contemporánea
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Gabriel Jackson served as a U.S. army cartographer during World War II and has been a Fulbright scholar in both France and Spain. He has taught at Wellesley College, Knox College, and the University of California at La Jolla. Gabriel Jackson currently serves on the Commission for Cultural. Educational, and Scientific Exchange between the United show more States and Spain. show less
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- Canonical title
- The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939
- Original title
- The Spanish Republic and the Civil War (1931-1939) (1931-1939)
- Original publication date
- 1965
- Important places
- Spain
- Important events
- Spanish Civil War (1936 | 1939)
- Original language*
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 946.081 — History & geography History of Europe Spain & Portugal Spain Second Republic; Dictatorship; Juan Carlos I; Felipe VI 1931- Second Republic; Spanish Civil War
- LCC
- DP254 .J3 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Spain – Portugal History of Spain History By period Modern Spain, 1479/1516- 20th century. 1886- Second Republic, 1931-1939
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- English, Italian, Spanish, Turkish
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- ISBNs
- 19
- ASINs
- 7
