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  • The People’s Dictator

    The Life of General Primo de Rivera

    by Alejandro Quiroga ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain
    This book is the first major biography of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain between 1923 and 1930, who played a key role in the shaping of a counterrevolutionary Europe in the interwar era.Following new historiographical trends, this book combines biographical experiences of the dictator with a sociopolitical reading of the dictatorship to reflect on the configuration of national, ... Read more

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  • Right-Wing Spain in the Civil War Era

    Soldiers of God and Apostles of the Fatherland, 1914-45

    Edited by Dr Alejandro Quiroga, Professor Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco ...
    Right-Wing Spain in the Civil War Era explores the lives of the leading Spanish conservatives in the turbulent period 1914-1945. The volume is a collection of biographies of the most important figures of the Spanish Right during the last years of the Restoration, the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the Second Republic, the Civil War and the early years of the Franco regime.This book brings ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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    In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez.Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Colombia and early journalism career, to the publication of One Hundred ... Read more

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  • The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

    Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

    by Paul Preston ...
    Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco’s Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work.Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum’s Gulag and Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full ... Read more

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  • Che Guevara

    by Andrew Sinclair ...
    A concise biography of one of the most iconic revolutionaries of all time. ... Read more

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  • THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

    Revolution and Counterrevolution

    by Burnett Bolloten ...
    The final, revised, edition of Burnett Bolloten’s exhaustive and indispensable, 50-year-long scholarly study of Republican/revolutionary politics in the Spanish Civil War (“The Grand Camouflage:, 1961; “The Spanish Revolution”, 1979; “The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution”, 1986), covers the entire period of the war from 1936 to 1939. Welsh-born Bolloten, initially a Communist ... Read more

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  • Architects of Terror

    Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain

    by Paul Preston ...
    A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution.It is the previously untold story of how antisemitic beliefs were weaponised to justify and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Salazar

    The Dictator Who Refused to Die

    by Tom Gallagher ...
    Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still divides opinion. Some see him as a reactionary and oppressive figure who kept Portugal backward, while others praise his honesty, patriotism and dedication to duty. Contemporary radicals are wary of his unabashed elitism and skepticism about social ... Read more

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  • The Last Days of the Spanish Republic

    by Paul Preston ...
    Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston’s new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.This is the story of an avoidable humanitarian tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more.On 5 March 1939, the eternally malcontent Colonel Segismundo Casado ... Read more

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  • Spain

    From Dictatorship to Democracy

    by Javier Tusell ...
    Series Book 14 - A History of Spain
    This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century.A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent transition to democracy up to the present dayTusell was a celebrated public figure and historian. During ... Read more

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  • El Generalísimo

    A Biography of Francisco Franco

    by Giles Tremlett ...
    The first biography exploring both Francisco Franco's life and the enduring legacy of Francoism Supported by his allies, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco rose to power by defeating the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War that lasted from 1936 to 1939. Yet while Hitler and Mussolini did not survive World War II, Franco remained Spain's strongman ruler until his death thirty years ... Read more

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  • Anarchism in Latin America

    by Ángel J. Cappelletti ...
    Translated by Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez ...
    The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is the first book-length regional history ever published in English. ... Read more

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