The Canada Blanch/Sussex Academic studies on contemporary Spain
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A war for our times: the Spanish Civil War in twenty-first century perspective -- The memory of murder: mass killing and the making of Francoism -- Ghosts of change: the story of Amparo Barayón -- Border crossings: thinking about the international brigaders before and after Spain -- Brutal nurture: coming of age in Europe's wars of social change -- Franco's prisons: building the brutal national community in Spain -- The afterlife of violence: Spain's memory wars in domestic and international context.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Helen Graham explores the origins, nature, and long-term consequences of the exterminatory civil war in Spain, charting the resonant forms of political, social, and cultural resistance to it and the memory and legacy these have left behind in Europe and beyond. Not least is the growing sense of the enormity of what, in greater European terms, the Republican war effort resisted: Nazi adventurism and the continent-wide wars of ethnic and political "purification" it unleashed. In Spain today the civil war remains "the past that will not pass away."