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The routes to exile
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ISBN: 152610251X 178170600X 9781781706008 9781526102515 9780719086915 0719086914 1526102528 Year: 2013 Publisher: Manchester New York, NY

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Analyses the experiences of Spanish Republican refugees in France.


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Bombs over Biscay, Barcelona and Dresden (1937-1945): From the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Sometimes tragedies that have little to distinguish them from a wide range of similar events and which can make no claim to record numbers of casualties or destructive impact go down in history as fundamental and emblematic. This is the case of two of the airstrikes discussed in this volume: Barcelona and Dresden. Other tragedies, however, are sometimes obscured by circumstances elsewhere. This is the case of the “other Guernicas”: that is to say, the bombings of Otxandio, Durango and Elorrio in Biscay. They are good examples not only of the brutality inherent in all wars and of how methods of combat become increasingly barbaric as conflicts wear on but also of the way in which some circumstances push events to the forefront of history and make them emblematic.


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Bombs over Biscay, Barcelona and Dresden (1937-1945): From the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Sometimes tragedies that have little to distinguish them from a wide range of similar events and which can make no claim to record numbers of casualties or destructive impact go down in history as fundamental and emblematic. This is the case of two of the airstrikes discussed in this volume: Barcelona and Dresden. Other tragedies, however, are sometimes obscured by circumstances elsewhere. This is the case of the “other Guernicas”: that is to say, the bombings of Otxandio, Durango and Elorrio in Biscay. They are good examples not only of the brutality inherent in all wars and of how methods of combat become increasingly barbaric as conflicts wear on but also of the way in which some circumstances push events to the forefront of history and make them emblematic.


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Bombs over Biscay, Barcelona and Dresden (1937-1945): From the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Sometimes tragedies that have little to distinguish them from a wide range of similar events and which can make no claim to record numbers of casualties or destructive impact go down in history as fundamental and emblematic. This is the case of two of the airstrikes discussed in this volume: Barcelona and Dresden. Other tragedies, however, are sometimes obscured by circumstances elsewhere. This is the case of the “other Guernicas”: that is to say, the bombings of Otxandio, Durango and Elorrio in Biscay. They are good examples not only of the brutality inherent in all wars and of how methods of combat become increasingly barbaric as conflicts wear on but also of the way in which some circumstances push events to the forefront of history and make them emblematic.


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Les intellectuels espagnols devant la guerre et la révolution.
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Year: 1937 Publisher: [Anvers] : [La Persévérance Anversoise],

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Not for King or Country : Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War
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ISBN: 148751879X 1487518781 Year: 2020 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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"Nearly 1700 Canadians volunteered to fight in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, yet there is not a single biography of a Canadian participant. Little is written about the Canadian volunteers, there are only 4 non fiction books and Michael Petrou's "Renegades" is scholarly. Edward Cecil-Smith, the commander of the ostensibly Canadian Mackenzie Papineau Battalian provides not only a case study of these volunteers, but a dramatic depiction of life in Canada during the 1930s."--


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Desertion : trust and mistrust in civil wars
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ISBN: 1501752944 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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Theodore McLauchlin's 'Desertion' examines the personal and political factors behind soldiers' choices to stay in their unit or abandon their cause. He explores what might spur widespread desertion in a given group, how some armed groups manage to keep their soldiers fighting over long periods, and how committed soldiers are to their causes and their comrades.


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Unexpected routes : refugee writers in Mexico
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ISBN: 9781503635968 Year: 2023 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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"Unexpected Routes chronicles the refugee journeys of six writers whose lives were upended by fascism in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II: Cuban-born Spanish writer Silvia Mistral, German-born Spanish writer Max Aub, German writer Anna Seghers, German author Ruth Rewald, Swiss-born political activist, photographer, and ethnographer Gertrude Duby, and Czech writer and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch. While these six writers came from different backgrounds, wrote in different languages, and enjoyed very different levels of recognition in their lifetimes and posthumously, they all made sense of their forced displacement in works that reveal their conflicted relationships with the people and places they encountered in transit as well as in Mexico, the country in which they all eventually found asylum. The literary output of these six brilliant, prolific, but also flawed individuals reflects the most salient contradictions of what it meant to escape from fascist occupied Europe. In a study that bridges history, literary studies, and refugee studies, Tabea Alexa Linhard draws connections between colonialism, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II and the Holocaust to shed light on the histories and literatures of exile and migration, drawing connections to today's refugee crisis and asking larger questions around the notions of belonging, longing, and the lived experience of exile"--


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Democracy and sovereignty in Spain : conceptual innovation in the Spanish Constituent Assembly of 1931
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ISBN: 1003317979 1032330554 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York : Taylor & Francis,

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This book delves into the conceptual changes produced by the Spanish constitutional debate held between 27 August and 9 December 1931. Taking place at the beginning of Spain’s Second Republic, those parliamentary deliberations brought about significant novelties in the political vocabulary. Concepts such as democracy, sovereignty, reform, revolution, and freedom, among others, were re-signified. This study investigates the conceptual contributions made by Spanish MPs in the course of the constitutional debate of 1931 by assuming, as a research approach, an interdisciplinary stance combining conceptual history, political theory, and parliamentary constitutional history. By doing so, it selects five determining issues: the pervasive discussion about two competing meanings of a democratic state; the rhetorical uses of reform and revolution; conceptual controversies about religious freedom; the disputed idea of property rights; and the functions of parliament and the president of the republic in a semi-presidential regime. The constitutional debate was largely inspired by interwar European constitutionalism which constituent representatives used to update the Spanish constitutional tradition. With that goal in mind, this book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students and scholars working in the fields of conceptual history, political philosophy, parliamentary history, European political history, and European constitutionalism.


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Self-portrait, with parents and footnotes
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ISBN: 1644696231 1644696223 1644696207 1644696215 9781644696231 9781644696224 9781644696200 9781644696217 Year: 2021 Publisher: Brookline, MA

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In this book, Aronowicz explores the lives of her parents, who lived through the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the post-war Communist world, with much migration in between. Through stories about her childhood, she investigates larger questions about memory, Judaism, politics, and religion.

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