Spain and the great powers in the twentieth century /
[Book]
edited by Sebastian Balfour and Paul Preston
viii, 274 pages ;
23 cm
Routledge/Cañada Blanch studies in contemporary Spain
Includes bibliographical references and index
Spain and the great powers in the aftermath of the disaster of 1898 / Sebastian Balfour -- Spain and the First World War / Francisco Romero -- Foreign policy under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera / Ismael Saz -- The Second Republic in the international arena / Ismael Saz -- The Allies and the Spanish Civil War / Enrique Moradiellos -- Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain, 1936-1945 / Christian Leitz -- Italy and Spain in Civil War and World War, 1936-1943 / Paul Preston -- Franco and the Allies in the Second World War / Denis Smyth -- Spain, Britain and the Cold War / Florentino Portero -- Spain and the United States, 1945-1975 / Boris Liedtke -- Breaking the shackles from the past: Spanish foreign policy from Franco to Felipe González / Angel Viñas
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Starting with the Spanish defeat in the Spanish American War of 1898 the contributors survey Spain's posture during World War 1, its foreign policy thereafter, its links with the Nazis, the Cold War and its final emergence into democracy in the 1980s