The Spanish labyrinth : an account of the social and political background of the Civil War
Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth, first published in 1990, has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War.
Print Book, English, [1993]
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, [1993]
History
xx, 384 pages : maps ; 22 cm
9780521398275, 0521398274
38930004
Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Chronological table; Political divisions; Part I. The Ancien Regime 1874–1931: 1. The Restoration, 1884–98; 2. The parliamentary regime and the Catalan question, 1898–1909; 3. The Liberals and the Church; 4. The army and the Syndicalist struggle in Barcelona 1916–23; 5. The dictatorship; Part II. The Condition of the Working Classes: 6. The Agrarian question; 7. The Anarchists; 8. The Anarcho-syndicalists; 9. The Carlists; 10. The Socialists; Part III. The Republic: 11. The Constituent Cortes; 12. The Bienio Negro; 13. The Popular Front; 14. Epilogue-the Civil War; Three sketch maps; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Originally published: 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1950. With new foreword