Why Democracy Failed: The Agrarian Origins of the Spanish Civil War

ISBN-13: 9781108720380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 316 str.

James Simpson; Juan Carmona

Opis

Reveals how political change and economic development led to the collapse of democracy and the origins of the Spanish Civil War.

Recenzje

'… essential reading for anyone looking to understand how Spain's problems of inequality led to such a brutal and violent reaction.' Sergio Riesco, EH.net (Economic History Association)

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The European Experience: Economic and Political Development, 1870–1939: 1. The modernization of European societies; 2. European agriculture in an age of economic instability; Part II. Spanish Agriculture, Economic Development and Democracy: 3. The limits to Spanish modernization, 1850–1936; 4. Agricultural growth, regional diversity, and regional land-tenure regimes; Part III. Explaining the Weakness of the Family Farm: 5. The family farm and the limits to village – level cooperation; 6. The persistence of the landed elites and the nature of farm lobbies; Part IV. Rural Elites, Poverty, and the Attempts at Land Reform: 7. Land ownership, economic development and poverty in Andalusia and southern Spain; 8. The limits to land reform; Part V. Rural Conflicts and the Polarization of Village Society: 9. Creating parties, political alliances, and interest groups: rural politics in the 1930s; 10. The growing polarization of rural society during the Second Republic; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Agricultural statistics in Spain, France and Italy in the early 1930s; Appendix 2. Dry-farming and the economics of the family farm.