Revolution and War in Spain 1931-1939

<p>This collection of essays constitutes a magnificent monument to recent scholarship on the Second Republic and the Civil War. It is indispensable for a full understanding of the period.' - Raymond Carr </p> List of contributors, List of abbreviations, Acknowledgements, Map of the regions and provinces of Spain, Introduction War of words: the Spanish Civil War and the historians, 1. The Republican ‘take-over’: prelude to inevitable catastrophe?, 2. The Church’s crusade against the Republic, 3. War on two fronts: politics and society in Navarre 1931–6, 4. Regionalism and revolution in Catalonia, 5. The epic failure: the Asturian revolution of October 1934, 6. Economic crisis, social conflict and the Popular Front: Madrid 1931–6, 7. The agrarian war in the south, 8. The Basque question 1931–7, 9. Soldiers, politics and war, 10. The popular experience of war and revolution 1936–9, 11. Reflex reaction: Germany and the onset of the Spanish Civil War, 12. The financing of the Spanish Civil War, Index