Books against Tyranny

Catalan-language publishers were under constant threat during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-75). Both the Catalan language and the introduction of foreign ideas were banned by the regime preoccupied as it was with creating a one great and free Spain. <i>Books against Tyranny</i> compiles for the first time the strategies Catalan publishers used to resist the censorship imposed by Franco's regime.<br> <br> Author Laura Vilardell examines documents including firsthand witness accounts correspondence memoirs censorship files newspapers original interviews and unpublished material housed in various Spanish archives. As such <i>Books against Tyranny</i> opens up the field and serves as an informative tool for scholars of Franco's Spain Catalan social movements and censorship more generally.