Exploring the role of cultural heritage in postconflict reconstruction whether as a motor for the prolongation of violence or as a resource for building reconciliation this book centers on the material practices and rhetorical strategies developed around cultural heritage in post civil war Spain and the victorious Franco regime s reconstruction. The analysis seeks to capture a discursively complex set of practices that made up the reconstruction and in which a variety of Spanish heritage sites were claimed, rebuilt or restored, and represented in various ways as signs of historical...