Time of Silence : Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Francos Spain, 1936-1945

English

Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Ser.

ISBN: 0521025060

EAN: 9780521025065

Category: History / Europe / Spain & Portugal/Social Science / Sociology / General/Biography & Autobiography / Political/Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy/Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism/Political Science / Civil Rights/

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release Date: 02/28/2006

Synopsis: The years 1936-1945 in Spain saw catastrophic civil war followed by fierce repression and economic misery. Families were torn apart and social relations were disrupted by death, exile and defeat. Society became traumatized so deeply that people avoided talking openly of these years for decades. This study attempts to show how the Civil War was understood and absorbed, particularly by those who could claim themselves as the victors, during and in the immediate aftermath of the conflict. It does so by exploring the interchanges between violence, ideas and economics during a period in which liberalism was seen as foreign contagion that infected carriers of impurities such as freemasons, regional nationalists, the working class, non-Catholics and women. This was the context of the internal colonization that confirmed Francos victory, concentrated economic power, and left executions and starvation in its wake.

Time of Silence : Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Francos Spain, 1936-1945

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.75 inches

Width: 5.98 inches

Length: 8.98 inches

Weight: 16.93 oz

Pages: 328