The Spanish Civil War 1936-39: American Hemispheric Perspectives
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Minor tear to Dj which has been carefully taped up.
Few conflicts in modern history ignited passions across the globe quite like the Spanish Civil War, and The Spanish Civil War 1936-39: American Hemispheric Perspectives illuminates precisely how that distant struggle reverberated through the Americas. Edited by Mark Falcoff and Fredrick B. Pike, this scholarly anthology gathers a compelling array of essays that chronicle how North and South American nations, intellectuals, politicians, and volunteers interpreted, debated, and responded to the brutal confrontation between Republican and Nationalist forces in Spain. The collection presents a richly textured, multi-national argument that the Spanish Civil War was never merely a European affair — it was a crucible in which hemispheric ideologies, from New Deal liberalism to Latin American nationalism and Catholic conservatism, were tested and transformed. Falcoff and Pike's editorial vision is rigorous and wide-ranging, drawing on diverse scholarly voices to illustrate the war's profound ideological aftershocks. For anyone seeking to understand how a single conflict shaped political consciousness across two continents, this volume raises questions that still resonate today.
Author: Mark Falcoff & Fredrick B. Pike
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, University of Nebraska Press.
Genre: European history
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Minor tear to Dj which has been carefully taped up.
Few conflicts in modern history ignited passions across the globe quite like the Spanish Civil War, and The Spanish Civil War 1936-39: American Hemispheric Perspectives illuminates precisely how that distant struggle reverberated through the Americas. Edited by Mark Falcoff and Fredrick B. Pike, this scholarly anthology gathers a compelling array of essays that chronicle how North and South American nations, intellectuals, politicians, and volunteers interpreted, debated, and responded to the brutal confrontation between Republican and Nationalist forces in Spain. The collection presents a richly textured, multi-national argument that the Spanish Civil War was never merely a European affair — it was a crucible in which hemispheric ideologies, from New Deal liberalism to Latin American nationalism and Catholic conservatism, were tested and transformed. Falcoff and Pike's editorial vision is rigorous and wide-ranging, drawing on diverse scholarly voices to illustrate the war's profound ideological aftershocks. For anyone seeking to understand how a single conflict shaped political consciousness across two continents, this volume raises questions that still resonate today.