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The Spanish Labyrinth
An Account of the Social and Political background of the Spanish Civil War
Brenan, Gerald Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York, USA
Year Published: 1962 First Published: 1943
Pages: 384pp
Resource Type: Book
Brennan charts layrinth of Spanish history between 1874 and 1936, disentangling and identifying the separate forces for disunity, looking at the role of the Chruch, the army, and the various political parties: Anarchists, Anarcho-Syndicalists, Carlists and Socialists. He shows how industrial unrest, unequal privileges, agrarian discontent, and provincial loyalties each had a share in the producing civil war.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: The Ancient Regime, 1874-1931
Chapter I: The Restoration, 1874-1898
II: The Parliamentary Regime and the Catalan Question, 1898-1909
III: The Liberals and the Church
IV: The Army and the Syndicalist Struggle in Barcelona, 1916-1923
V: The Dictatorship
Part II: The Condition of the Working Classes
Chapter VI: The Agrarian Question
VII: The Anarchists
VIII: The Anarcho-Syndicalists
IX: The Carlists
X: The Socialists
Part III: The Republic
Chapter XI: The Constituent Cortes
XII: The Bienio Negro
XIII: The Popular Front
XIV: Epilogue - the Civil War
Three sketch maps
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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