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It was during the period 1913-1923 that the seeds of political polarization and social violence culminating in the Spanish Civil War were sown. This volume explores the causes of the growing schism within Spanish society, focusing on the crisis of the Spanish liberal order, under challenge from newly mobilized forces on both the Right and Left.

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The Agony of Spanish Liberalism and the Origins of Dictatorship: A European Framework; FJ.Romero Salvadó & A.Smith Government, Parties and the King, 1913-1923; J.Moreno Luzón Spain´s Revolutionary Crisis of 1917: A Reckless Gamble; F.J.Romero Salvadó An Impossible Unity: Revolution, Reform and Counter-revolution and the Spanish Left, 1917-1923; C.Ealham The Red Dawn´ of the Andalusian Countryside. Peasant Protest during the Bolshevik Triennium´, 1918-1920; F.Cobo Romero The Lliga Regionalista, the Catalan Right and the Making of the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship, 1916-1923; A.Smith `Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum´. The Catalan Employers´ Dirty War, 1919-1923; F.J.Romero Salvadó Nation and Reaction. Spanish Conservative Nationalism and the Restoration Crisis; A. Quiroga The Moroccan Quagmire and the Crisis of Spain´s Liberal System, 1917-1923; P.Laporte The Making of an Interventionist Army; S.Balfour

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´...this is a work which is to be highly recommended, and we can only hope that it soon sees the light of day in Spanish.´ - Journal of Contemporary History

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SEBASTIAN BALFOUR Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK FRANCISCO COBO ROMERO Professor in Contemporary Spanish History, the University of Granada, Spain CHRIS EALHAM History Lecturer, Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain and Honorary Research Fellow, Lancaster University, UK PABLO LA PORTE Lecturer in Spanish History, Heriot Watt University, UK JAVIER MORENO LUZàN Professor in Contemporary Spanish History, the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain ALEJANDRO QUIROGA Reader in Spanish History, the University of Newcastle, UK

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