The crisis of democracy in Spain : centrist politics under the Second Republic, 1931-1936
"This study scrutinizes the central role of republicanism in the origins of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Previous historians have focused on the left and the right of the political spectrum at the expense of the centre. Yet, the centre, as represented by the republican movement, dominated the governments of the Second Republic of 1931-36 until it collapsed into war. This book confronts the greatest paradox of the Second Republic: why did the most popular and historic party of the republic movement play a key role in the republic's destruction?"--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2000