LW 566 Spanish Civil War

Textbook Information
Methodology and Assignments
Readings
Spanish Civil War Links
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This course examins the Spanish Civil War both as an internal, Spanish crisis as well as a clash between rival totalitarian ideals in the context of their global rivalry. Clerical Fascism and the Anarcho-Syndicalist mindsets will be examined . Special discussion topics include women in the war, Soviet and fascist intervention, atrocities and the legacy of the war.

The image here shows Catholic priests fighting against the Spanish Republic.

Textbooks

Beevor, Anthony: Spanish Civil War. London, Cassell, 1999.
Browne, Harry: Spains Civil War, 2nd ed. White Plains, NY: Longman Publishing Group, 1996.
Orwell, George: Homage to Catalonia. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1969.

Assignments

In addition to a research paper and a final exam, students will participate in weekly discussions of asigned readings of scholarly articles and primary documents.

Readings

In addition to the textbook readings, the following resources are recommended for student research and a few might be included explicitely in our discussions:

Memory, Historiography, and the Spanish Civil War, An Interdisciplinary Conference.
Here are the abstracts of several papers on the collective memory of the Spanish Civil War.
Aguilar, Paloma and Carsten Humlebæk. "Collective Memory and National Identity in the Spanish Democracy: The Legacies of Francoism and the Civil War." History and Memory 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 121-164.
Blinkhorn, Martin: Carlism in the Spanish Crisis of the 1930s. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 17, No. 3/4 (Jul. 1972), 65-88.
Boyd, Carolyn P. "The Second Battle of Covadonga: The Politics of Commemoration in Modern Spain." History and Memory 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 37-64.
Bunk, Brian D. "'Your Comrades Will Not Forget:' Revolutionary Memory and the Breakdown of the Spanish Second Republic, 1934-1936." History and Memory 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 65-92.
Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Picasso: Picasso's Night Fishing at Antibes: Autobiography, Apocalypse, and the Spanish Civil War. The Art Bulletin Vol. 68, No. 4 (Dec., 1986), pp. 657-672.
Cenarro, Ángela. "Memory Beyond the Public Sphere: The Francoist Repression Remembered in Aragon." History and Memory 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 165-188.
Corbin, John: Truth and Myth in History: An Example from the Spanish Civil War. Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 25, No. 4 (Spring, 1995), pp. 609-625.
Corum, James S.: The Spanish Civil War: Lessons Learned and Not Learned by the Great Powers. The Journal of Military History Vol. 62, No. 2 (Apr., 1998), pp. 313-334
Crosby, Donald F.: Boston's Catholics and the Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939. The New England Quarterly Vol. 44, No. 1 (Mar., 1971), pp. 82-100.
de la Cueva, Julio: Religious Persecution, Anticlerical Tradition and Revolution: On Atrocities against the Clergy during the Spanish Civil War. Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jul., 1998), pp. 355-369.
Fleay, C.; Sanders, M.L.: The Labour Spain Committee: Labour Party Policy and the Spanish Civil War. The Historical Journal Vol. 28, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 187-197.
Flint, James: "Must God Go Fascist?": English Catholic Opinion and the Spanish Civil War. Church History Vol. 56, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp. 364-374.
Francis, Hywel: Welsh Miners and the Spanish Civil War. Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 5, No. 3, Popular Fronts (1970), pp. 177-191.
Hofmann, George F.: The Tactical and Strategic Use of Attache Intelligence: The Spanish Civil War and the U.S. Army's Misguided Quest for a Modern Tank Doctrine. The Journal of Military History Vol. 62, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 101-133.
Junco, José Álvarez. "The Formation of Spanish Identity and Its Adaptation to the Age of Nations." History and Memory 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 13-36.
Little, Douglas: Red Scare, 1936: Anti-Bolshevism and the Origins of British Non-Intervention in the Spanish Civil War. Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 23, No. 2, Bolshevism and the Socialist Left (Apr., 1988), pp. 291-311.
Mangini, Shirley: Memories of Resistance: Women Activists from the Spanish Civil War. Signs Vol. 17, No. 1 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 171-186.
Manteiga, Robert C.: Politics and Poetics: England's Thirties Poets and the Spanish Civil War. Modern Language Studies Vol. 19, No. 3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 3-14.
Medrano, Juan Diez: Patterns of Development and Nationalism: Basque and Catalan Nationalism before the Spanish Civil War. Theory and Society Vol. 23, No. 4 (Aug., 1994), pp. 541-569.
Mirella, Loris: Realigning Modernism: Eliot, Auden, and the Spanish Civil War.
Modern Language Studies Vol. 24, No. 3 (Summer, 1994), pp. 93-109.
Moreno, Eduardo Manzano and Juan Sisinio Pérez Garzón. "A Difficult Nation?: History and Nationalism in Contemporary Spain." History and Memory 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 259-284.
Narotzky, Susana and Gavin Smith. ""Being Político" in Spain: An Ethnographic Account of Memories, Silences and Public Politics." History and Memory 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 189-228.
Núñez, Xosé-Manoel. "History and Collective Memories of Migration in a Land of Migrants: The Case of Iberian Galicia." History and Memory 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 229-258.
Olson, Joel: The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt and the Anarchists of the Spanish Civil War. Polity Vol. 29, No. 4 (Summer, 1997), pp. 461-488.
Preston, Paul: Alfonsist Monarchism and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War. Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 7, No. 3/4 (Jul., 1972), pp. 89-114.
Rein, Raanan. "A Political Funeral." History and Memory 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 5-12.
Richards, Michael. "From War Culture to Civil Society: Francoism, Social Change and Memories of the Spanish Civil War." History and Memory 14, no. 1/2 (2002): 93-120.
Richardson, R. Dan: Foreign Fighters in Spanish Militias: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Military Affairs Vol. 40, No. 1 (Feb., 1976), pp. 7-11.
Robinson, R.A.H.: Political Conservatism: The Spanish Case, 1875-1977. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct. 1979), p. 561-580.
Schwartz, Kessel: Culture and the Spanish Civil War - A Fascist View: 1936-1939. Journal of Inter-American Studies Vol. 7, No. 4 (Oct., 1965), pp. 557-577.
Seidman, Michael: Individualisms in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. The Journal of Modern History Vol. 68, No. 1 (Mar., 1996), pp. 63-83
Seidman, Michael: Work and Revolution: Workers' Control in Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-38. Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul., 1982), pp. 409-433.
Sullivan, Brian R.: Fascist Italy's Military Involvement in the Spanish Civil War. The Journal of Military History Vol. 59, No. 4 (Oct., 1995), pp. 697-727.

Spanish Civil War Links

Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive
Fascism
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War
A collection of texts, including many primary sources.
History of the Spanish Civil War
With both primary and secondary sources, including photos.
From the Anarchy Archives.
(1936-1939; facsimiles, transcriptions and commentary)
Spanish Civil War Oral History Project
Mostly illustrating Tampa, Florida's connections to Spain.
From the University of South Florida.
(1936-1940; facsimiles and audio)
The Visual Front: Posters of the Spanish Civil War
From the Southworth Collection at the University of California at San Diego
(1934-1939; facsimile images)
They Still Draw Pictures:
Drawings made by Spanish Children During the Spanish Civil War
From the Southworth Collection
At the University of California at San Diego.
(mostly 1938; facsimile images)
Childrens Drawings of the Spanish Civil War
An online exhibition of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
At Columbia University.
(1936-1939; facsimile images)
Shots of War:
Photojournalism During the Spanish Civil War
From the Southworth Collection
At the University of California at San Diego.
(mostly 1936-1939; facsimile images)
War Memories / Memory Wars: Violence in contemporary Spain
Links on women in the Spanish Civil War: "Women in World History" unit on the Spanish Civil War, a bibliography, a bibliography by Janet L. Seymour.