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Author : Preston Paul Preston
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781474471763
This book is a compilation of several articles about the Spanish Civil War by different authors each one dealing with a matter.
Author : Karl J. Trybus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782841692
The birth of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 ushered in a period of possible secularisation to Spain. Liberals welcomed legal changes, while conservatives feared the special 'privileges' they enjoyed would end. The Catholic Church remained a central focus of left-wing antagonism and right-wing allegiances, and conflicts surrounding the future of religion grew severe. While members of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy had clearly supported the right and disdained the left, the actions and opinions of the Vatican and its hierarchy stationed in Spain were much more nuanced. Similarly, when conservative military action plunged Spain into a Civil War in July 1936, the majority of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy openly supported their victory, but the highest levels of the Vatican remained silent. This book explores the unique position and specialised reactions of the Vatican concerning the Second Republic and Civil War. For the Holy See, the conflict in Spain was not an isolated event at the edge of the continent, but part of a larger narrative of ideological and political tension swirling across Europe. Any public statement by the Vatican concerning the Spanish Republic or Civil War could be misconstrued as support for one side or another, and threaten the Church. True, the Vatican often remained silent -- and some have suggested this supports the conclusion that the Church worked for Franco -- but by accessing previously unavailable sources directly from the Vatican, this book can help to clarify the difficult options that awaited the Holy See during this disastrous period. Similarly, this book works to highlight the fact that the Catholic Church was not some monolithic entity, but men like Pope Pius XI and Secretary of State Pacelli had their own understandings of spirituality and politics.
Author : Helen Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 052145932X
This book is a comprehensive 2002 analysis of the Spanish left during the civil war of 1936-9.
Author : Helen Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0192803778
"Helen Graham highlights the domestic and international context of the Spanish Civil War, and reveals its origins in the political and cultural anxieties provoked by the rapid modernization of Europe. Using personal narratives, she combines a powerfully human account of the war an its aftermath with a disturbing ethical enquiry into its legacy for the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Qian Zhongshu
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811223546
The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era. Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights.
Author : Moira Donald,Tim Rees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350317468
Until the dramatic fall of Communist regimes in the East placed the possibility of revolution on the agenda once again, sudden and decisive political change had appeared a largely anachronistic phenomenon in Europe. Looking back over the twentieth century, it is plausible to argue that the twentieth, rather than the nineteenth, has been the 'most revolutionary of centuries'. In this volume, leading specialists from a variety of disciplines examine the changing and conflicting meanings of revolution in modern and contemporary Europe. Contributions include both broad essays on the global and historical context of European revolution and specific case studies reinterpreting a variety of revolutionary experiences.
Author : Robert Colls
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199680801
An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined Englishness for a generation. Aside from being one of the greatest political essayists in the English language and author of two of the most famous books in twentieth century literature, George Orwell was a man of profound contradictions. George Orwell:English Rebel takes us through the many twists and turns of Orwell's life and thought, from precocious, public school satirist at Eton and imperial policeman in Burma, through his early years as a rather dour documentary writer, and his formative experiences as a volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War. Robert Colls traces, in particular, Orwell's complex relationship with his country, from the alienated intellectual of the mid-1930s through a gradual reconciliation, to the exhilarating peaks of his wartime writing. He explores the mistakes and contradictions, the lucky escapes and near misses, and what they tell us about Orwell as man and author.
Author : William Henry Hurlbert
Publisher : London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Company
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HNXE23
Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141925813
Following the enormous success of HITLER: HUBRIS this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhinelland occupation and ending nine years later with the suicide in the Berlin bunker, Kershaw allows us as never before to understand the motivation and the impact of this bizarre misfit. He addresses the crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, about the Holocaust and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.
Author : T.G. Otte,C. Pagedas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135253615
Combines essays on the "personality dimension" in the 19th and 20th century international history, placing in a proper historical perspective the impact of individual diplomats, politicians and military strategists on foreign policy-making.
Author : Andrés Barba
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 9781328589347
A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.
Author : Texas. Secretary of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Texas
ISBN : UOM:49015002144500
Author : Josie McLellan
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191515330
AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Spanish Civil War became the subject of a debate which both predated and outlasted the Cold War, involving historians, veterans, politicains, censors, artists, writers, and Church activists. Examining these multiple memories and interpretations of Spain casts new and unexpected light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, and the relationship between history and memory under state socialism. The ruling Socialist Unity Party made full use of the antifascist legacy as legitimation for a non-democratic state. But despite dogged attempts at control and censorship, the state was unable to silence competing voices. All over East Germany, International Brigade veterans preserved their version of events - in letters to each other, in communications with the party, in discussions with friends and family around the kitchen table, and in memoirs written for the 'desk drawer'. For younger East Germans, the war retained an undeniably romantic aura. From their perspective, Spain was a far-away land to which they were forbidden to travel, the stuff of camp-fire singalongs and fantasies of adventure. This book dissects the relationship between state-sponsored history, the lobbying of veterans, cultural interpretations of war, and the memory traces left behind by marginalised or politically oppositional groups and individuals. It is a cultural history of memory under state socialism, a social history of veteran groups and their relationship with the state, and a political history of communist culture. Above all, it is the story of how post-war Europeans came to terms with the heavy burden of their pre-war past.
Author : Robert Michael Citino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054461366
Since the earliest days of warfare, military operations have followed a predictable formula: after a decisive battle, an army must pursue the enemy and destroy its organization in order to achieve a victorious campaign. But by the mid-19th century, the emergence of massive armies and advanced weaponry - and the concomitant decline in the effectiveness of cavalry - had diminished the practicality of pursuit, producing campaigns that bogged down short of decisive victory. Great battles had become curiously indecisive, decisive campaigns virtually impossible.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Senate Resolution 266
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : MINN:31951D035241921