The Agony of Spanish Liberalism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The Agony of Spanish Liberalism and the Origins of Dictatorship: A European Framework

   • Francisco J. Romero Salvadó, Angel Smith

   Pages 1-31

3. The Government, Parties and the King, 1913–23

   • Javier Moreno Luzón

   Pages 32-61

4. Spain’s Revolutionary Crisis of 1917: A Reckless Gamble

   • Francisco J. Romero Salvadó

   Pages 62-91

5. An Impossible Unity: Revolution, Reform and Counter-Revolution and the Spanish Left, 1917–23

   • Chris Ealham

   Pages 92-120

6. ‘The Red Dawn’ of the Andalusian Countryside: Peasant Protest during the ‘Bolshevik Triennium’, 1918–20

   • Francisco Cobo Romero

   Pages 121-144

7. The Lliga Regionalista, the Catalan Right and the Making of the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship, 1916–23

   • Angel Smith

   Pages 145-174

8. ‘Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum’: The Catalan Employers’ Dirty War, 1919–23

   • Francisco J. Romero Salvadó

   Pages 175-201

9. Nation and Reaction: Spanish Conservative Nationalism and the Restoration Crisis

   • Alejandro Quiroga

   Pages 202-229

10. The Moroccan Quagmire and the Crisis of Spain’s Liberal System, 1917–23

    • Pablo La Porte

    Pages 230-254

11. The Making of an Interventionist Army, 1898–1923

    • Sebastian Balfour

    Pages 255-274

12. Back Matter

    Pages 275-281

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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.

• civil war
• dictatorship
• Europe
• nation
• reform
• restoration
• revolution
• Spain

'...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

• Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol, UK

  Francisco J. Romero Salvadó

• Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Leeds, UK

  Angel Smith

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 LUZÓN 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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