The Crisis of Democracy in Spain
Centrist Politics under the Second Republic, 1931-1936
Series:
Liverpool Studies in Spanish History;
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date of Publication: 22 February 2024
Normal price:
Publisher's listprice:
GBP 32.50
GBP 32.50
Your price:
14 128 (13 455 HUF + 5% VAT )
discount is: 10% (approx 1 570 HUF off)
The discount is only available for 'Alert of Favourite Topics' newsletter recipients.
Click here to subscribe.
Click here to subscribe.
Availability:
Not yet published.
Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781898723950 |
| ISBN10: | 1898723958 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 444 pages |
| Size: | 155x230 mm |
| Weight: | 691 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| 689 |
Category:
Short description:
This study scrutinizes the central role of republicanism in the origins of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. It confronts the greatest paradox of the Second Republic: why did the most popular and historic party of the republic movement play a key role in the republic's destruction?
Long description:
The first study in English to scrutinise the central role od republicanism in the origins of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39.
Table of Contents:
Contents: From Revolution to Reform: The origins and evolution of the Radical Party, 1901-1931; 'A Republic for all Spaniard': The Radical defence of change and continuity, April to June 1931; The Struggle with the Socialists: The fight for supremacy within the Republican-Socialist Alliance, July to December 1931; In Search of a Strategy: The vicissitudes of the Radical opposition, January to August 1932 ; Plotting for Power: The attempted coup d'etat of 10 August 1932; The Ambiguous Courtship: The Radicals and the left-republicans, August 1932 to September 1933; The Quest for the Centre: The Radical Party in power, September 1933 to April 1934; The Price of Pragmatism: The schism of May 1934; Trapped between Left and Right: The Samper administration of May to October 1934; Allies and Adversaries: The Centre-Right government of October 1934 to April 1935; Compromise and Confrontation: Resisting the Right, May to October 1935; The Fall from Power: The unravelling of the Radicals, November 1935 to July 1936; Conclusions; Index.
