Interrogating Francoism: History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain

✍ Scribed by Helen Graham (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Helen Graham here brings together leading historians of international renown to examine 20th-century Spain in light of Franco’s dictatorship and its legacy.
Interrogating Francoism uses a three-part structure to look at the old regime, the civil war and the forging of Francoism; the nature of Franco’s dictatorship; and the ‘history wars’ that have since taken place over his legacy. Social, political, economic and cultural historical approaches are integrated throughout and ‘top down’ political analysis is incorporated along with ‘bottom up’ social perspectives. The book places Spain and Francoism in comparative European context and explores the relationship between the historical debates and present-day political and ideological controversies in Spain.
In part a tribute to Paul Preston, the foremost historian of contemporary Spain today, Interrogating Francoism includes an interview with Professor Preston and a comprehensive bibliography of his work, as well as extensive further readings in English. It is a crucial volume for all students of 20th-century Spain.
The book gathers an author team of internationally renowned experts on contemporary Spain and deploys a three-part structure to look at the monarchist regime; the Second Republic; the civil war and the forging of Francoism; the nature of Franco’s dictatorship, and the ‘history wars’ that have since taken place over the dictator’s legacy. The volume’s essays are always alert to the ways in which this legacy continues to shape historical perceptions and debate today, including of the pre-Francoist twentieth century. Social, political, economic and cultural historical approaches are integrated throughout the text and ‘top down’ political analysis is incorporated along with ‘bottom up’ social perspectives. The book places Spain and Francoism in comparative European context (especially the debates opened up since 1989 on the meanings of the Second World War), and explores for the first time in an integrated fashion the relationship between the historical debates and present-day political and ideological controversies in Spain.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
WRITING SPAIN’S TWENTIETH CENTURY IN(TO) EUROPE
The war in Spain
Europe’s myths, Spain’s myths
The end of Franco?
Enduring Francoism: Spain from 1989 to the twenty-first century
From memory wars to history wars: revisionism in the twenty-first-century Academy in Spain
In defence of history: interrogating Francoism
Notes
PART I THE ENDURANCE OF THE OLD REGIME: STRUCTURES, MENTALITIES AND EVERYDAY LIFE
CHAPTER 1 TWENTIETH-CENTURY CATHOLICISMS: RELIGION AS PRISON, AS HAVEN, AS ‘CLAMP’
The Restoration monarchy: roles, uses and meanings of Catholicism
The 1930s: secularization and Catholic mobilization
Religion and civil war
The Franco dictatorship: continuity and change
Myths, martyrs and memory: democracy and the present
Conclusions
Notes
Further reading
CHAPTER 2 BUILDING ALLIANCES AGAINST THE NEW? MONARCHY AND THE MILITARY IN INDUSTRIALIZING SPAIN
Historiographical perspectives
Praetorian politics in Restoration Spain
Alfonso XIII: King of Swords
Spain’s 1917
Towards a praetorian monarchy
Notes
Further reading
CHAPTER 3 REFORM AS PROMISE AND THREAT: POLITICAL PROGRESSIVES AND BLUEPRINTS FOR CHANGE IN SPAIN, 1931–6
The republican-socialist coalition government of 1931–3
Reform in Spain 1931–3: a clash of projects and mentalities
Enabling democracy?
The erosion of the left, 1931–3
The ‘logic’ of progressive republicanism: anticlericalism as strategic error?
Counter- reform 1934–6: the counter- revolution mobilized, the coalition for change atomized
Spring 1936: the continuing fragmentation of reform, the unity of counter- reform
Conclusion: the chances of reform
Notes
Further reading
PART II MAKING DICTATORSHIP: DISCOURSE, POLICY AND PRACTICE
CHAPTER 4 ‘PRODUCTIVE HATREDS’: RADICAL SEGREGATIONIST DISCOURSES AND THE MAKING OF FRANCOISM
Notes
Further reading
CHAPTER 5 A COUP AGAINST CHANGE: REPRESSION IN SEVILLE AND THE ASSAULT ON CIVILIAN SOCIETY
An Andalusian class war
Queipo and the myth against change
The victory of the elite
The pacification of Seville’s worker districts
The second ‘miracle of Seville’: economic repression
‘Re-educating’ the masses: the depoliticization of the working class
The humanitarian catastrophe in the unofficial capital of insurgent Spain
Conclusion
Notes
Further reading
CHAPTER 6 NATURAL ALLIANCES: THE IMPACT OF NAZISM AND FASCISM ON FRANCO’S DOMESTIC POLICIES
Fascism, military rebellion and Franco
Under friendly ‘infl uence’
The allure of Nazi principles
Subjugating ‘parliament’
Franco’s ‘secret legislation’: the beginning
The Führerprinzip in action after the Second World War
Secret legislation for after a war
The primacy of ideology: Franco’s long dream of fascist autarky
Conclusion: the enduring appeal of fascism
Notes
Further reading
CHAPTER 7 STATES OF WAR: ‘BEING CIVILIAN’ IN 1940s SPAIN
The forging of a new society of victors and vanquished
Surviving imprisonment
Surviving outside prison
The road to the sierra
Conclusion
Notes
Further reading
PART III MAKING MEMORY: HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF DICTATORSHIP
CHAPTER 8 STORIES FOR AFTER A WAR: SOCIAL MEMORY AND THE MAKING OF URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL TRANSITION IN 1960s SPAIN
Intimate violence, state- building and migration
Social memory and the origins of the transition
Conclusions
Notes
Further reading
CHAPTER 9 DISREMEMBERING FRANCOISM: WHAT IS AT STAKE IN SPAIN’S MEMORY WARS?
Notes
Further reading
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
CHAPTER 10 BIOGRAPHIES FOR A CAUDILLO AFTER A WAR: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COMMENTARY ON BIOGRAPHIES OF FRANCO
Praising a Caudillo: Francoist biographies
Denouncing a Caudillo: anti-Francoist biographies during the years of the dictatorship
Judging a Caudillo: a historiographical review of Franco biographies
Notes
CHAPTER 11 CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORK OF PAUL PRESTON
Books
Edited books
Articles
Chapters in books
Pamphlets
CODA
CHAPTER 12 INTERVIEW WITH PAUL PRESTON
CHAPTER 13 PhDs SUPERVISED BY PAUL PRESTON
(1) Theses successfully submitted and published, with the title of the resulting book
(2) Theses successfully submitted and as yet unpublished
INDEX