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Editors: Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Adrian Shubert
ISBN: 9781350230408
Format: Hardback
Extent: 520 pp
Price: £130.00
Publication: December 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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In 25 innovative thematic essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War sees an interdisciplinary team of scholars examine a conflict that, more than 80 years after its conclusion, continues to generate both scholarly and public controversy.
Split into four main sections covering Military and Diplomatic Issues, Society and Culture, Politics, and Debates, the volume offers a number of unique features. It is unprecedented in its comprehensiveness and includes chapters on topics that are rarely, if ever, explored in the literature of the field: humanitarianism, children and families, material conditions, the decimation of elites, archives and sources, archaeological approaches, digital approaches, public history, and cultural studies approaches.
Instead of discussing each of the two warring sides, Republicans and Francoists, separately, as is so often the case, the book’s thematic structure means that these opposing forces are examined together, facilitating comparison and fresh understanding in numerous areas of study. Contributors from the UK, the USA, Canada, Spain and Denmark also analyse the major controversies and disputes surrounding each topic as part of a detailed exploration of one of the seminal events of the 20th century.
This volume offers an impressive showcase of new historical understandings of the Spanish civil war. Given the breadth and variety of approaches deployed and the comprehensiveness of the topics covered, it will be welcomed by undergraduate teachers and researchers as well as readers interested in twentieth first century European history. Judith Keene, School of Humanities, University of Sydney, Australia
