This book provides a comparative history of the domestic and international nature of Spain's First Carlist War (1833-40) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), as well as the impact of both conflicts. The book demonstrates how and why Spain's struggle for liberty was won in the 18…
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Krieg und Geschlecht im 20. Jahrhundert: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu Geschlechterfra…
by Laba, Agnes, Streichhahn, Vincent, Altieri, Riccardo, Zürn, Anja, Crasser, Catharina, Engelmann, Sebastian, Grafl, Florian, Günther, Jana, Horstmann, Anna, Kleemola, Olli, Nebe, Julia, Radchenko, Olga, Richter, Julia, Schiff, Anna, Seibert, Katharina, Sonnleitner, Ute, Titze, Anja, Tossa, Messan
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Das 20. Jahrhundert als »Zeitalter der Extreme« ist in starkem Maße durch kriegerische und genozidale Auseinandersetzungen geprägt. Die Geschichtsschreibung nahm in ihren Untersuchungen bisher jedoch mehrheitlich eine androzentrische Perspektive ein und ignorierte die in den 198…
Was British Labour activist support for the anti-Franco cause 'the most outstanding example of international solidarity in British history? Here Lewis Mates challenges this myth and argues that support for the anti-Franco cause was varied and multi-faceted.
This book uses Christian reactions to the Spanish Civil War to analyse the role and importance of Christianity in interwar Britain. This conflict is used as a proxy through which to discuss the status of Christianity in Britain because the Nationalists claimed to be fighting a H…
My research investigates the transnational significance of civil war through its representations in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, visual culture, and mass media. I employ a comparative approach to the study of civil war by working across national borders in thr…
This project examines the interplay between memory, history, and politics relating to Spanish Republican memories of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the following authoritarian dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). In my analysis of this relationship, I focus on th…
Fascism, Populism and Common Sense in Spain: La Gaceta Literaria, La Conquista del Estado, F.E. y Vértice (1927-1939) focuses on the emergence of Spanish fascism in a crucial period of Spain's history: the end of the monarchy, the proclamation of the Second Republic, the outbrea…
Jesse is in his early twenties and stuck in Salinas, California. He works at Lenscrafters, making glasses, making decent money and he is comfortable. The novel opens when Jesse.s high school friend, Ben, is visiting from Los Angeles, where he is a screenwriter. The two go to a p…
This study deploys the Spanish illustrator Francisco Rivero Gil (1899-1972) as a paradigmatic figure of the graphic arts in order to explore the relationships between image and text being played out in representation as expressions of Spain's unique process of modernization. The…
My dissertation analyzes the Spanish Nobel Laureate poet’s transatlantic path and his relationship to Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico as expressed in his archival practices from 1916 (his first trip to the U.S.) until his death in 1958. Jiménez went into permanent exile…
This thesis consists of a close reading of the representation of the Spanish Civil War in selected novels of Juan Marse (1933-) and Claude Simon (1913-). It explores how this representation, ultimately, reveals the traces of their different intellectual contexts. The initial com…
Why do states use secrecy? Specifically, why do great powers often seem to create a kind of "backstage" area around local conflicts? That is, why create a covert realm where external powers can meddle in local conflicts to pursue their security interests? This project generally …
This thesis is an exploration of the motives, mentalities and collective identities which lay behind acts of popular anticlerical violence and iconoclasm during the pre-war Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The five year period following …
Times of war and political turmoil provoke an array of musical responses. The years between 1936 and 1945 saw unprecedented casualties for humanity in the horrors inflicted by the Third Reich. Artistic freedom also suffered under such oppressive forces, and mounting nationalisti…
