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The best account of the war against Spain
This is an excellent account, showing that the war was largely one fought alone by the Spanish people against the invading forces of Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy. The British and French governments organised the farce of 'Non-Intervention', whereby other countries were prevented from aiding Spain, but Germany and Italy's interventions were permitted. The Soviet Union and Mexico broke with Non-Intervention, and gave more aid to Spain than any other countries. ... Read more

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In response to the need for new approaches to the study of the defence industry, Military Production and Innovation in Spain extends the scope beyond the traditional analysis of arms producers to include components and sub-systems manufacturers. It combines a description of the changes experienced by Spanish military production with an analysis of its deeply-rooted structural characteristics. In doing so, it provides a fruitful base from which to study the impact of the growing international integration of military production on a second-ter producer like Spain. It offers an in-depth analysis of the Spanish military-related industry, its links with the rest of the economy and its potential role as a technological engine for the Spanish economy. By showing that the effects of military R&D and production on the rest of the economy depend on the sectors and levels at which different firms operate, Jordi Molas-Gallart questions the practice of treating defence production and technology as homogen ... Read more

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Pure propaganda
The book that started Moa's propagandistic campaign to claim a place for the extreme right in the Spanish political scene, by means of rejecting any guilt in the outbreak of the Civil War.

The bias of this book is incredible: lack of any critical analysis on the validity of sources, documents quoted out of context and omission of any evidence contrary to his thesis. The conclusions are incredible as well: the leftist politicians were forcing a communist revolution, and the extreme right tried a coup in self-defence, so they are not guilty of starting the war. Go figure!

For those who do not believe in just one truth
Book for those who wants to understand a bit better Spain and Spanish ... Read more

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A discussion of the day-to-day government of a remote Spanish province at a time when the disorders of conquest were giving way to a settled administration. ... Read more

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Enlightenment, Governance,and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759-1808 offers a new interpretation of political reform in Spain and its American empire in the second half of the eighteenth century. It examines the intellectual foundations of commercial, administrative, and colonial policy during the tumultuous reigns of Charles III (1759-1788) and Charles IV (1788-1808), and explores how crown reformers employed both the ideas of the European Enlightenment and Iberian juridical concepts to create a distinctive ideology of governance. They sought to use these ideas in order to reinvigorate the Spanish monarchy and to transform the institutions of the Old Regime into those of a modern state in both the Old World and the New. Drawing on archival research undertaken in Spain, Cuba, Chile, and Argentina, this book makes an important contribution to the histories of Spain, Latin America, and the Atlantic World. ... Read more

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Although 20th century Spain has been dominated by the forces of the Right, historians have tended to concentrate their attentions on the Spanish Left.The Politics of Revenge redresses this balance with a disturbing interpretation of how fascists and militarists combined to overthrow democracy in Spain in the 1930s and maintained a cruel and corrupt dictatorship until the 1970s.

Paul Preston's engrossing study focuses on the army officers and Falangists who advocated and practiced political violence.Its provocative interpretation of the Spanish Right in its authoritarian, fascist and military forms constitutes an original vision of a ruthless political scene.

Preston is currently the world's leading authority on Spanish history.Through his thorough analysis of 40 years of fascist dictatorship in Spain, The Politics of Revenge serves as an indispensable aid to an understanding of 20th century Spanish and European history. ... Read more

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Enlightening
This very good book is a series of linked essays examining the history and role of the fascist Falangist movement and the military in Spanish history from the conclusion of the Civil War to the establishment of democracy.The military and the Falange were two important components of the rightist coalition that won the Civil War.Preston does not examine the history of the other major components of this coaltion; the Catholic Church and its associated political movements, and the powerful upper and upper middle class economic interests that supported the right wing revolt.These last two groups eventually became disenchanted with the Franco regime and by the 60s, were on the side of regime transformation.The military and the Falangist movement, on the other hand, remained intransigent to the very end with substantial dissident elements in the military mounting coup attempts into the 1980s.Preston covers the nature of the Francoist state as a semi-fascist movement, the use of the military as a primary force for internal social control, the nature of Franco's balancing act among the different components of the regime, and a number of allied features.There is, for example, a good chapter on Franco's relations with the Axis powers in WWII.All the chapters are informative and written well, though there is some overlap with Preston's other writings, as well as some redundancy among chapters.A decent knowledge of the Civil War and the broad outlines of post-Civil War Spanish history are necessary to read this book. ... Read more

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This book provides a unique and comprehensive guide to Spain's political and economic institutions. The authors show how these have evolved over the past decade to reflect the increasing regionalization of public life and genuine integration of the country into European Union institutions. Informed comment at the end of each chapter balances detailed descriptions of the institutions concerned, and careful cross-referencing ensures an understanding of the key links among organizations. This is an expanded, revised and fully-updated edition of the authors' book Spain: A Guide to Political and Economic Institutions, (CUP 1987). ... Read more

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Contributors include John F. Coverdale, Jorge de Esteban, Luis Lopez Guerra, Antonio Lopez Pina, Rafael Lopez-Pintor, Jose Maria Maravall, Juan F. Marsal, Stanley Payne, Javier Roiz, Juan Roldan Ros, Richard M. Scammon, Javier Tusell Gomez, Jose Ignacio and Wert Ortega. ... Read more

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This book analyzes the decay of Liberal politics in Spain as the regional version of the general crisis that engulfed most of Europe between 1916 and 1923. Romero enriches the important wider debate about this watershed period of European history when, in the face of unprecedented mass social protest and political mobilization, incumbent governing elites struggled to find a valid formula of social containment in the dawning of mass politics which also saw the spread of the radical new doctrines of Bolshevism and Fascism.

Above all, this book examines Spain’s "crisis of modernization," a process marked by complex social and political realignments through which the nature of civil society was profoundly altered. It resulted in an unprecedented spiral of violence and a polarization that firstly led to an authoritarian formula of social control in 1923, and ultimately to the outbreak of civil war in 1936.

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Has devolution fostered secessionism in Catalonia? Are Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism within the EU? What is the impact of globalization upon the survival and development of nations without states such as Catalonia? These key questions are addressed in this volume. ... Read more

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This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. ... Read more

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A series of fresh insights into the processes that have brought Spanish political reform to its current position through a diverse set of testimonies from Spaniards who have been actively involved in politics within the country. These give a new, and authoritative, set of perspectives on the development of the nation's politics towards consensus after the division under Franco. ... Read more