The Splintering of Spain; Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1946-1939

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Illustrations......Page 11
Maps......Page 13
Contributors......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 18
Chronology......Page 20
1 History, memory and the Spanish civil war: recent perspectives......Page 31
Part 1 Overviews: violence, nationalism and religion......Page 51
The role of the symbolic in the polarisation of political discourse......Page 53
The formulation of subversive projects and the channels of dissemination of the discourse of violence in the Second Republic......Page 56
The vocabulary of political confrontation in the republican period......Page 61
Networks of mobilisation and the arenas of political violence......Page 68
Epilogue: civil war......Page 74
3 Nations in arms against the invader: on nationalist discourses during the Spanish civil war......Page 75
Nationalisms of the republican side: ‘the Spanish people against the foreign invasion’......Page 77
Nationalism of the right: ‘the national crusade against Bolshevism’......Page 85
Regional nationalisms: ‘a new coexistence sealed by blood’......Page 90
Some conclusions......Page 94
4 ‘The keys of the kingdom’: religious violence in the Spanish civil war, July-August 1936......Page 98
Part 2 Republican political and cultural projects......Page 121
The origins of Catalan populism......Page 123
Populist choices......Page 126
Revolutionary choices and the survival of populism......Page 130
A Spanish imitation of populism?......Page 134
6 The myth of the maddened crowd: class, culture and space in the revolutionary urbanist project in Barcelona, 1936-1937......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 161
7 The culture of empowerment in Gijón, 1936-1937......Page 163
Part 3 Identities on the Francoist side......Page 187
8 Old symbols, new meanings: mobilising the rebellion in the summer of 1936......Page 189
Political symbols and mobilisation in the civil war......Page 191
‘!Salve, bandera de la patria, salve!’  The red-and-yellow flag......Page 195
‘God wishes it’: the crusade......Page 201
Conclusion......Page 205
9 ‘Spain\'s Vendée’: Carlist identity in Navarre as a mobilising model......Page 207
Carlist identity as a model......Page 208
Other perspectives on civil war Navarre......Page 221
Conclusions......Page 224
10 ‘Presenting arms to the Blessed Sacrament’: civil war and Semana Santa in the city of Málaga, 1936-1939......Page 226
Religion, urban space and war in Málaga......Page 230
Semana Santa, political conflict and collective identity......Page 232
The revolution: ‘Málaga\'s Calvary’......Page 237
‘The liberation’: Málaga\'s redemption......Page 241
Some conclusions......Page 250
HISTORY, MEMORY AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: RECENT PERSPECTIVES......Page 253
THE SYMBOLISM OF VIOLENCE DURING THE SECOND REPUBLIC IN SPAIN, 1931-1936......Page 257
NATIONS IN ARMS AGAINST THE INVADER: ON NATIONALIST DISCOURSES DURING  THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR......Page 260
‘THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM’: RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE IN.THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, JULY-AUGUST 1936......Page 266
CATALAN POPULISM IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR......Page 272
THE MYTH OF THE MADDENED CROWD: CLASS, CULTURE AND SPACE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY URBANIST PROJECT IN BARCELONA, 1936-1937......Page 279
THE CULTURE OF EMPOWERMENT IN GIJÓN, 1936-1937......Page 285
OLD SYMBOLS, NEW MEANINGS: MOBILISING THE REBELLION IN THE SUMMER OF 1936......Page 287
‘SPAIN’S VENDÉE’: CARLIST IDENTITY IN NAVARRE AS A MOBILISING MODEL......Page 290
‘PRESENTING ARMS TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT’: CIVIL WAR AND SEMANA SANTA IN THE CITY OF MÁLAGA, 1936-1939......Page 295
Index......Page 301