Modern Spain

Politics and Society Since 1874

Using a wealth of varied sources, this book is an inspiring and essential gateway to understanding the foundations of modern Spain. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó employs a chronological framework to chart the country's experience, commencing with the Restoration of the Bourbon Monarch in 1874 ...

Political comedy and social tragedy

Spain, a laboratory of social conflict 1892-1921

This book analyses the troubled and often violent path of Spain to modernity. During the nearly 30 years of history explored (1892–1921), the country appeared to be caught in a kind of Groundhog Day. It was rocked in the 1890s by an ill-fated colonial ...

¿Quién mató a Eduardo Dato?

comedia política y tragedia social en España, 1892-1921

Una precuela de las monografías anteriores del autor sobre la Gran Guerra y las causas de la Guerra Civil Española, este libro analiza el difícil desafío y a menudo violento camino hacia la modernidad. Durante los casi 30 años analizados (1892-1921), España parecía estar atrapada ...

La agonía del liberalismo español

de la revolución a la dictadura (1913-1923)

Este libro analiza la crisis orgánica del régimen liberal español que culminó en el establecimiento de la dictadura del general Primo de Rivera en septiembre de 1923. En él, se aborda la decadencia de la política liberal en España como la variante local de la ...

La larga Guerra Civil española

La Guerra Civil fue consecuencia del fracaso parcial de la insurrección militar de julio de 1936. Sin embargo, como Romero Salvadó sugiere, las raíces del conflicto se hallan profundamente arraigadas en la historia del país. La polarización social, el intervencionismo pretoriano y el recurso a ...

THe agony of spanish liberalism

from Revolution to Dictatorship, 1913-23

Eds. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó, Angel Smith. It was during the period 1913-1923 that the seeds of political polarization and social violence that culminated in the Spanish Civil War were sown. This specially commissioned collection of essays explores the causes of the growing schism within ...

The spanish Civil War

origins, course and outcomes

Though it is nearly seventy years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, it still remains a compelling subject surrounded by fierce controversy. Romero Salvado offers an absorbing and vivid analysis of the origins, course and outcomes of the Spanish tragedy. Unravelling the myths ...

Twentieth-Century Spain

politics and society in Spain, 1898-1998