Right-Wing Spain in the Civil War Era explores the lives of the leading Spanish conservatives in the turbulent period 1914-1945. The volume is a collection of biographies of the most important figures of the Spanish Right during the last years of the Restoration (1914-1923), the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1930), the Second Republic (1931-1936), the Civil War (1936-39) and the early years of the Franco regime (1939-45). This book brings together a number of leading historians of twentieth-century Spain. By adopting a biographical approach, the volume aims at providing a new insight of the origins, development and aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Contrary to the traditional view, Right-Wing Spain in the Civil War Era shows a diverse and fragmented Spanish right which, far from being isolated, was profoundly influenced by German Nazism, Italian Fascism and French Traditionalism. This remarkable and innovative collection of essays will be welcomed by students and lecturers of Spanish history alike.

Author Biography

Miguel Angel del Arco is Lecturer in History at the Universidad de Granada, Spain. He is the author of Las alas del ave fenix: La politica agraria del primer franquismo (1936-1959) and Hambre de Siglos: Mundo rural y apoyos sociales del primer franquismo en Andalucia Oriental. Dr Alejandro Quiroga is Reader in Spanish History at Newcastle University, UK, and Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Spain. He is the author of Making Spaniards: Primo de Rivera and the Nationalization of the Masses and (with Sebastian Balfour) The Reinvention of Spain: Nation, Identity and Nationalism since Democracy.