Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century

✍ Scribed by Sebastian Balfour, Paul Preston, Professor Paul Preston

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 283
Series: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Centuryexamines the international context to, and influences on, Spanish history and politics from 1898 to the present day. Spanish history is necessarily international, with the significance of Spain's neutrality in the First World War and the global influences on the outcome of the Spanish Civil War.
Taking the Defeat in the Spanish American war of 1898 as a starting point, the book includes surveys on: the crisis of neutrality during the First World War foreign policy under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera the allies and the Spanish Civil War Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain Spain and the Cold War relations with the United States
This book traces the important topic of modern Spanish diplomacy up to the present day

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