Bringing the work of Spanish historians to the English-speaking world, this book offers public testimony to the enormous strides made in recent years by Spanish professional scholars in shaking off the reluctance to confront the past that marked the transition to democracy after Franco's death in 1975. It brings together some of the leading experts on the violence of the Spanish Civil War to showcase their latest research, providing a broad overview of the institutional repression and its consequences, while offering up new interpretations and perspectives. The contributors challenge a number of myths fostered by the Franco regime, and kept in place by years of silence.
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Introduction: Grappling with Spain's Dark Past Peter Anderson and Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco Part One: Rebel Violence 1. The Psychopathology of an Assassin: General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano Paul Preston 2. Francoist Antifeminism and the Violent Reversal of Women's Liberation, 1936-1951 Francisco Cobo Romero and Teresa María Ortega López 3. Scandal and Diplomacy: The Use of Military Tribunals to Keep the Francoist Repression Afloat During the Civil War Peter Anderson Part Two: Violence in the Republican Zone 4. Political Violence in the Republican Zone: Repression and Popular Justice in a City Behind the Lines: Málaga, July 1936-February 1937 Lucía Prieto Borrego and Encarnación Barranquero Texeira 5. 'The Civilisation That Is Being Forged Amid the Thunder of the Cannons': Anticlerical Violence and Social Reconfiguration: July - December 1936 Maria Thomas Part Three: Repression and Resistance in the Postwar Period 6. 'Loving the Punished': The Prison System and the Church in the Post-War Period Gutmaro Gómez Bravo 7. The Struggle Continues: Everyday Repression and Resistance in Post-War Francoist Spain Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco 8. The Long Nocturnal March: The Spanish Guerrilla Movement in the European Narrative of Antifascist Resistance (1936-1952) Jorge Marco Part Four: Facing the Past 9. Remembering Spain's War: Violence, Social Change, and Collective Identity Since 1936 Michael Richards 10. Challenging Impunity in Spain Through the Concept of Genocidal Practices Antonio Miguez Macho
