The Spanish Labyrinth
An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Labyrinth, first published in 1943, has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War.

Gerald Brenan (Author)

9781107431751, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

648 pages, 4 maps
21.5 x 13.8 x 3.2 cm, 0.91 kg

Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately after the Civil War, this book has all the vividness of the author's experience. It represents a struggle to see the issues in Spanish politics objectively, whilst bearing witness to the deep involvement which is the only possible source of much of this richly detailed account. As a literary figure on the fringe of the Bloomsbury group, Gerald Brenan lends to this narrative an engaging personal style that has become familiar to many thousands of readers over the decades since it was first published.

Foreword Sir Raymond Carr
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Chronological table
Political divisions
Part I. The Ancien Regime, 1874–1931: 1. The Restoration, 1884–98
2. The parliamentary regime and the Catalan question, 1898–1909
3. The Liberals and the Church
4. The army and the syndicalist struggle in Barcelona, 1916–23
5. The dictatorship
Part II. The Condition of the Working Classes: 6. The agrarian question
7. The anarchists
8. The anarcho-syndicalists
9. The Carlists
10. The Socialists
Part III. The Republic: 11. The constituent Cortes
12. The Bienio Negro
13. The Popular Front
14. Epilogue: the Civil War
Three sketch maps
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], European history [HBJD]