RESOURCES

1. ASSOCIATIONS
2. POSTERS
3. THEMED GUIDES AND PORTALS
4. CIRCULATION LISTS
5. RECENT PUBLICATIONS
6. RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATION
7. TEXTS AND DOCUMENTS

5. RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Bennassar, Bartolomé. El infierno fuimos nosotros. Madrid: Taurus, 2005. 548 p.

Bennassar, a French Hispanist and an expert in the modern and contemporary history of Spain, gives an overview of the conflict and the exile and repression that it led to. This extended essay is very useful for anyone wanting a global view of the war.

• Cruz, Rafael. En el nombre del pueblo. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2006. 416 p.

Rafael Cruz is a university lecturer whose special field of study is the history of social movements. In this essay, he considers the Republic, the fascist rebellion and the Civil War. This is a very carefully researched academic study that shatters many stereotypes on all sides.

• De Andrés, Jesús y J. Cuellar. Atlas ilustrado de la Guerra civil. Madrid: Susaeta, 2005. 201 p.

This book gives the biographies of the key individuals involved in the conflict and analyses its most controversial aspects, offering a vision suitable for the general reader.

• Eslava Galán, Juan. Una historia de la Guerra civil que no va a gustar a nadie. Barcelona: Planeta, 2006. 432 p.

The author does not take either side in this broad-brush, fast-moving account of the Civil War.

• Graham, Helen. Breve historia de la Guerra Civil. Madrid: Espasa, 2006. 216 p.

This book places the war in its domestic and international context and shows how the political and cultural concerns that arose as a result of the rapid modernisation of Europe contributed to the outbreak of the conflict. With the support of personal testimony, Graham weaves an informative and human account of the war and its consequences.

• Guerra i propaganda: fotografies del Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya. (1936-1939). Textos de J.M. Solé i J. Villarroya. Barcelona: Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya; Viena, 2006, 268 p.

In October 1936 the Generalitat de Catalunya decided to create the Comissariat de Propaganda (Propaganda Commission) in order to “praise the cultural and physical achievements of our people and to raise awareness of them around the world”. The driving force behind the programme was the ideologist from Figueres Jaume Miravitlles, who was familiar with the artistic avant-garde movements and surrounded himself with a circle of intellectuals, photographers and journalists who worked with the Commission. The 5,539 surviving photographs that bear testimony to the Commission’s activity are held in the Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya (Catalan National Archive), which organised an exhibition of these works with an accompanying catalogue.

• Izquierdo, Santiago. República i autonomia: el difícil arrelament del catalanisme d’esquerres, 1904-1931. Catarroja: Afers, 2006. 224 p.

The evolution in leftwing Catalanism was determined by the Lliga Regionalista (Regionalist League). Santiago Izquierdo, who lectures in history at the UOC (Open University of Catalonia), takes this premise as his starting point for an in-depth study of the emergence of the Catalanist left.

• Juliá, Santos (coord.). República y guerra en España. Madrid: Espasa, 2006. 488 p.

This book brings together contributions from a number of experts in the field and offers a broad overview of Spanish political history from 1931 to 1939, with a special emphasis on the internal affairs of Spanish politics at that historic moment.

• Preston, Paul. La Guerra Civil española. Barcelona: Debate, 2006. 424 p.

The eminent British Hispanist Paul Preston offers an educational and erudite account of the Spanish Civil War that is highly recommended for the reader looking for an excellent introduction to the issue.

• Reverte, Jorge M. La caída de Cataluña. Barcelona: Crítica, 2006. 555 p.

This prolific author devotes his latest essay to the last major event in the Civil War, the fall of Catalonia. The story opens towards the end of 1938, with Franco’s army ready to wipe out the last vestiges of resistance in Republican Catalonia. Meanwhile, on the Republican side, supporters of resistance at any price and those about to head into exile were becoming more and more discouraged and downhearted. This book also features those who were keen to see the arrival of Franco’s troops.

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