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List of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to the Revised Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Roots of the Conflict
Timeline
Chapter 1: Spain Split in Half
Chapter 2: Holy War and Anticlerical Hatred
Chapter 3: An International War on Spanish Soil
Chapter 4: The Republic at War
Chapter 5: The New Order
Chapter 6: A Long War
Epilogue: An Uncivil Peace
Bibliographic commentary
Index
About the author
Julián Casanova is Professor of History at the University of Zaragoza. His books include Anarchism, the Republic and Civil War in Spain: 1931–1939 (2005); The Spanish Republic and Civil War (2010); and, with Carlos Gil Andrés, Twentieth Century Spain: A History (2012)
Summary
In this revised edition of A Short History of the Spanish Civil
War, Julián Casanova tells the gripping story of the Spanish
Civil War.
Written in elegant and accessible prose, the book charts
the most significant events and battles alongside the main
players in the tragedy. Casanova provides answers to some
of the pressing questions (such as the roots and extent of
anticlerical violence) that have been asked in the 70 years
that have passed since the painful defeat of the Second
Republic. Now with a revised introduction, Casanova offers
an overview of recent historiographical shifts; not least the
wielding of the conflict to political ends in certain strands
of contemporary historiography towards an alarming neo-
Francoist revisionism. It is the ideal introduction to the
Spanish Civil War.
Foreword
An accessible and introductory overview of the Spanish Civil War in its national and international dimensions.
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At the time, the popular view on both sides of the Spanish civil war was that the issues at stake were simple in the eyes of both the left and the right, at home and abroad. Even today the issue of General Franco’s legacy is still fought over in such terms. But it was never that straightforward, and Professor Casanova has managed brilliantly to summarise the core issues in readable form without in any way minimising their extreme complexity.
