{"product_id":"2026200010554-secondhand-the-spanish-republic-and-the-civil-war-1931-1939","title":"The Spanish Republic And The Civil War: 1931-1939","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew conflicts of the twentieth century cast as long a shadow as the Spanish Civil War, and Gabriel Jackson's landmark study remains the definitive account of the turbulent decade that tore a nation apart. The work chronicles the birth of the Spanish Second Republic in 1931 — a fragile democratic experiment set against a landscape of deep social inequality, regional nationalism, and ideological polarisation — through to Franco's final victory in 1939, tracing with forensic precision how a constitutional government collapsed into one of history's most devastating civil wars.\n\nJackson writes with the authority of a rigorous historian and the clarity of a gifted narrator, presenting the competing forces of Left and Right, anarchism and fascism, church and state, not as abstractions but as living tensions embodied in real political actors and ordinary citizens. The Spanish Republic and the Civil War stands as essential reading not only for students of Spanish history, but for anyone seeking to understand how democracies fracture — a question whose urgency has never diminished.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130711908571,"sku":"2026200010554-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/37376cd1-1ff4-4256-bb5a-5e49f67cbdd3.png?v=1786589030","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010554-secondhand-the-spanish-republic-and-the-civil-war-1931-1939","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}