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Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies
London School of Economics and Political Science
London
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Publications

The Centre has an exciting range of publications, in the form of a series of books as well as articles in peer-reviewed journals on the history, politics, society and economy of Spain. 

Find the catalogue 2011 here| (PDF).    

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Paul Preston

Books

Editor, Spain in Crisis: Evolution and Decline of the Franco Regime (Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1976).

Translated into Spanish as España en crisis: evolución y decadencia del régimen franquista (Madrid & Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1978).

Translated into Italian as Le basi autoritarie della Spagna democrática (Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier, 1978).

Editor, Leviatán: antología (Madrid: Ediciones Turner, 1976).

The Coming of the Spanish Civil War: Reform Reaction and Revolution in the Second Spanish Republic 1931-1936 (London: Macmillan, 1978).

English paperback edition with corrections (London: Methuen, 1983).

Translated into Spanish as La destrucción de la democracia en España: reforma reacción y revolución en la segunda República (Madrid: Ediciones Turner, 1978)

2nd revised Spanish edition (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1987)

2nd English edition further revised and expanded (London: Routledge, 1994)

3rd Spanish edition further revised and expanded (Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori, 2001)

(with Denis Smyth) Spain, the EEC and NATO (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs & Routledge Kegan and Paul, 1984).

Translated into Spanish as España ante la CEE y la OTAN (Barcelona: Ediciones Grijalbo, 1985)

Editor, Revolution and War in Spain 1931-1939 (London: Methuen, 1984).

Translated into Spanish as Revolución y guerra en España 1931-1939 (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1986)

Las derechas españolas en el siglo veinte: autoritarismo, fascismo, golpismo (Madrid: Editorial Sistema, 1986).

The Triumph of Democracy in Spain, (London and New York: Methuen, 1986)

Translated into Spanish as El triunfo de la democracia en España, (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1986)

Translated into German as Spanien: der Kampf um die Demokratie (Rheda-Wiedenbrück: Daedalus Verlag, 1987)

2nd Spanish edition (Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori, 2001)

The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New York: Grove Press, 1986).

Translated into Spanish as La guerra civil española 1936-1939 (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1987)

Published in paperback (Chicago: The Dorsey Press, 1988)

2nd English edition fully revised and expanded, with amended title, A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War (London: Fontana Press, 1996)

Translated into Italian as La guerra civile spagnola 1936-1939 (Milan: Mondadori, 1999)

2nd edition La guerra civile spagnola 1936-1939 (Milan: Il Giornale, 2002)

Translated into Spanish as La guerra civil española 1936-1939 (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 2000)

Translated into Portuguese as A guerra civil de Espanha (Lisbon: Edicões 70, 2005)

Editor (with Helen Graham), The Popular Front in Europe (London: Macmillan, 1987)

The Politics of Revenge: Fascism and the Military in 20th Century Spain (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990)

Corrected edition published in paperback (London: Routledge, 1995)

Translated into Spanish as La política de la venganza: el fascismo y el militarismo en la España del siglo XX (Barcelona: Ediciones Península, 1997)

Editor (with Frances Lannon), Elites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain: Essays in Honour of Sir Raymond Carr (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990)

Franco: A Biography (London: Harper-Collins, 1993)

Corrected edition (New York: Basic Books, 1994)

Paperback edition (London: Fontana Press, 1995)

Translated into Spanish as Franco "Caudillo de España" (Barcelona: Grijalbo, Grupo Grijalbo-Mondadori, 1994) and (Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1995)

Translated into Italian as Francisco Franco: La lunga vita del Caudillo (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1995)

Translated into Czechoslovak as Franco (Prague: BB Art, 2001) ISBN: 80-7257-619-4

Corrected and extended Spanish translation Franco "Caudillo de España" (Barcelona: Grijalbo, Grupo Editorial Random House-Mondadori, 2002)

Editor (with Ann Mackenzie), The Republic Besieged: Civil War in Spain 1936-1939 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996).

Revised edition translated into Spanish as La Republica asediada. Hostilidad internacional y conflictos internos durante la guerra civil (Barcelona: Ediciones Península, 1999)

Editor (with Ismael Saz), Dynamism and Conflict. Valencia 1808-1975 (Glasgow: University of Glasgow/Carfax Publishing, 1998) ISBN: 0 902 879 073

Translated into Spanish as De la revolución liberal a la democracia parlamentaria. Valencia (1808-1975) (Madrid: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, 2001) ISBN: 84-7030-855-6

¡Comrades! Portraits from the Spanish Civil War (London: HarperCollins, 1999) ISBN: 0-00-215392-0

Translated into Spanish as Las tres Españas del 36 (Barcelona, Plaza y Janés, 1998) ISBN: 84-01-53026-1.

Translated into Italian as Le tre Spagne del ‘36 (Milan: Casa Editrice Corbaccio, 2002) ISBN: 88-7972-361-8

Editor (with Sebastian Balfour), Spain and the Great Powers (London: Routledge, 1999) ISBN: 0-415-18078-5

Translated into Spanish as España y las grandes potencias en el siglo XX (Barcelona, Editorial Crítica, 2002) ISBN: 84-8432-286-6

Doves of War. Four Women of Spain (London: HarperCollins, 2002) ISBN: 0 00 255633 2

Published in the USA (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003) ISBN: 1-55553-560-7

Translated into Spanish as Palomas de guerra. Cinco mujeres marcadas por el enfrentamiento bélico (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 2001) ISBN: 84-01-53051-2

Translated into Italian as Colombe di guerra. Storie di donne nella guerra civile spagnola (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori, 2006) ISBN: 88-04-52641-6

Translated into Portuguese as Pombas de Guerra. Quatro mulheres na Guerra Civil de Espanha (Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007) ISBN: 978-989-625-113-0

Also in press with Mondadori, Milan.

(with Ángel Palomino) Francisco Franco (Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2003) ISBN: 84-666-1075-8

Translated into French as Franco. Biographies croisées (Paris: Éditions Grancher, 2005) ISBN: 2-7339-0930-4

Juan Carlos. A People’s King (London: HarperCollins, 2004) ISBN: 0 00 255632 4

Translated into Spanish as Juan Carlos. El Rey de un pueblo (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 2003) ISBN:84-01-37824-9

Published in the USA as Juan Carlos. Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy (New York: W.W.Norton, 2004)

Published in paperback as Juan Carlos. Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy (London: Harper Perennial, 2005) ISBN: 0-00-638693-8

Translated into Dutch as Juan Carlos: Van dictatuur naar democratie in Spanje (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Atlas, 2006) ISBN: 90 450 1442 4

Translated into Portuguese as Juan Carlos Biografia (Lisbon: Quetzal Editores, 2004) ISBN: 972-564-607-X

Tres años que desafían el olvido: La Guerra Civil. Las fotos que hicieron historia (Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros/JdeJ Editores, 2005) ISBN: 84-9734-424-3

Botxins i repressors. Els crims de Franco i dels franquistes (Barcelona: Editorial Base, 2006) ISBN: 84-85031-59-8

The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (London: HarperCollins, 2006) 381 pp. (ISBN: 13 978-0-00-723207-9)

Translated into Spanish as La guerra civil española (Barcelona: Debate, 2006) ISBN84- 8306-661-0

Translated into Catalan as La guerra civil espanyola (Barcelona: Editorial Base, 2006) ISBN: 84-85031-61-x

Translated into Dutch as Een Kleine Geschiedenis van de Spaanse Burgeroorlog (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Atlas, 2006) ISBN: 90 450 0669 3

U.S. edition The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (New York: W.W.Norton, 2007) 381 pp. (ISBN: 978-0-393-32987-2)

Translated into Italian as La guerra civile spagnola 1936-1939 (Milan: Mondadori, 2007)

We Saw Spain Die. Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War (London: Constable, 2008) 436 pp. (978-1-84529-851-7)

Translated into Catalan as Idealistes sota les bales. Històries de la guerra civil (Barcelona: Proa Editorial, 2007) ISBN: 978-84-8437-957-7

Translated into Spanish as Idealistas bajo las balas. Corresponsales extranjeros en la guerra de España (Barcelona: Editorial Debate, 2007) ISBN: 978-84-8306-722-2

El gran manipulador. La mentira cotidiana de Franco (Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2008) 370 pp. ISBN: 978-84-666-3829-6

Translated into Catalan as Franco. El gran manipulador (Barcelona: Editorial Base, 2008) ISBN: 978-84-85031-93-1

The Spanish Holocaust. Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth Century Spain (HarperCollins, London; W.W.Norton, New York, 2012)

Translated into Spanish as El holocausto español. Odio y exterminio en la guerra civil y después (Barcelona: Editorial Debate, 2011) ISBN: 978-84-8306-852-6

Translated into Catalan as L’holocaust espanyol. Odi i extermini durant la guerra civil i després (Barcelona: Editorial Base, 2011) ISBN: 978-84-15267-23-2

Peter Anderson

  • The Francoist Military Trials: Terror and Complicity, 1939-1945

David Baird

  • Between Two Fires: Guerrilla War in the Spanish Sierras

Sebastian Balfour

  • España reinventada. Nación e identidad desde la transición (co-authored with Alejandro Quiroga)
  • Deadly Embrace: Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War
  • Castro (Profiles in Power)
  • The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923
  • Dictatorship, Workers and the City

Richard Barker

  • Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground. Repression, Victimization and Humiliation in a Small Andalusian Town. The Human Consequences of the Spanish Civil War

Richard Baxell

  • British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939

Julián Casanova

  • Anarchism, the Republic and Civil War in Spain, 1931-1939

Angelo Cenarro

  • Cruzados y Camisas Azules

Nicholas Coni

  • Medicine and the Spanish Civil War

Christopher Ealham

  • Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937
  • José Peirats, The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, 3 vols. (Edited and revised by C. Ealham)

Michael Eaude

  • Triumph at Midnight of the Century. A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea

Soledad Fox

  • Constancia de la Mora in War and Exile.  International voice for the Spanish Republic
  • Flaubert and Don Quijote: The Influence of Cervantes on Madame Bovary

Salvador García Castañeda

  • The Spanish Émigrés and the London Literary Scene, 1814-1834

Johnathan Gathorne-Hardy

  • The Interior Castle.  A Life of Gerald Brenan

Casilda Güell Ampuero

  • The failure of catalanist opposition to Franco, (Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2006), 224 pp. (ISBN: 84-00-08473-X)
  • L´eterna desunió dels catalans 1939-1950, (Barcelona, Editorial Base, 2008), 222 pp. (ISBN: 978-84-92437-02-3)

Montserrat Guibernau

  • Catalan Nationalism: Francoism, transition and democracy

Angela Jackson

  • British Women and the Spanish Civil War

Gabriel Jackson

  • Juan Negrín, Spanish Republican War Leader

Christian Leitz

  • Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain

Diego Muro

  • Ethnicity and Violence: The Case of Radical Basque Nationalism

Pilar Ortuño Anaya

  • European Socialists and Spain. The Transition to Democracy, 1959-77

Cristina Palomares

  • The Quest for Survival after Franco. Moderate Francoism and the Slow Journey to the Polls, 1964-1977

David W. Pike

  • Spaniards in the Holocaust. Mauthausen, the horror on the Danube
  • Franco and the Axis Stigma

Hilari Raguer

  • Gunpowder and Incense: The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War

Michael Richards

  • A Time of Silence

Kathleen Richmond

  • Women and Spanish Fascism: The women's section of the Falange, 1934-1959

Isabelle Rohr

  • The Spanish Right and the Jews, 1898-1945: Antisemitism and Opportunism

F J Romero Salvadó

  • Spain 1914-1918. Between War and Revolution
  • The Foundations of Civil War: Revolution, Social Conflict and Reaction in Liberal Spain, 1916-1923

Herbert R Southworth

  • Conspiracy and the Spanish Civil War. The brainwashing of Francisco Franco

Gareth Stockey

  • Gibraltar. A Dagger in the Spine of Spain

Ramon Tremosa-i-Balcells

  • Catalonia, An Emerging Economy

Richard Wigg

  • Churchill and Spain: The survival of the Franco regime, 1940-1945

Collaborative works

  • Policing Interwar Europe: Continuity, Change and Crisis, 1918-1940.  Gerald Blaney, Jr. (editor)
  • Antifascistas: British and Irish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Richard Baxell, Angela Jackson and Jim Jump (editors)
  • Looking Back at the Spanish Civil War.  The International Brigade Memorial Trust's Len Crome Memorial Lectures, 2002-2010.  Jim Jump (editor)
  • The Politics of Contemporary Spain.  Sebastian Balfour (editor)
  • Red Barcelona: Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the Twentieth Century, Angel Smith (editor)
  • Spain and the Great Powers in the 20th Century. Sebastian Balfour & Paul Preston (editors) 
  • The Republic Besieged - Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939. Paul Preston & Ann L. Mackenzie (editors) 
  • La Guerra Civil: ¿Dos O tres Españas? Paul Preston and others
  • Consensus Politics in Spain: Insider Perspectives.  Monica Threlfall (editor)
  • Dynamism and Conflict: Valencia, 1808-1975.  Paul Preston and Ismael Saz (editors)
  • Revolution and War in Spain, 1931-1939. Paul Preston (editor)

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