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| L'ESPAGNE REPUBLICAINE : French Policy & Spanish Republicanism in Liberated France [David A Messenger] This work examines the Spanish question in the context of post-war French politics and foreign policy, in particular during the period 1943-1946. The war had been fought against authoritarian fascism, yet Francisco Franco and his regime remained in power. Spanish Republican refugees in France were heralded as model democrats awaiting liberation, a liberation that France could best provide through pursuit of an antagonistic policy toward Franco. But in reality, members of Charles de Gaulle's government-in-exile had developed ties to Spain during the war in conjunction with the United States and Great Britain. France was in the midst of renewal and redefinition, a process with both national and international aspects. The importance of the Spanish case in that process has been neglected by historians. With significant differences, there was an important parallel to the debates that engaged France during the Spanish Civil War. Different visions of France and its role in Europe competed with one another as Spanish policy was debated. Based on research from unpublished sources from state and private archives in Paris, Madrid, Toulouse, London and Washington, this book is essential reading for Spanish and French History scholars. { 256pp, 152x229mm, April 2008; HB, £55.00, 1845192591:9781845192594 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WAR [Pelt Mogens & Morten Heiberg (ed)] The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) is still today subjected to heated discussions and public debates. As with the Vietnam War 30 years later, the civil war in Spain had a deep impact outside the area in which the military battle took place. Thousands of books have since contributed to the understanding of what started as an internal Spanish clash, but ended in an international conflict. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy's support to General Franco's military rebellion as well as Soviet Union's defence of the Republic, provided the civil war with an ideological dimension which has left its imprint on the historical interpretations ever since. However, in spite of huge scientific and public interest in the civil war, our knowledge of this crucial event is not as complete, as one might assume. Actually, it is only in recent years that we have acquired a more precise knowledge of the way the great powers handled the conflict. This is due essentially to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which led to the sudden release of a wide range of important documents from archives across the world. Inspired by these new insights, the different chapters of the present study, written by some of the foremost researchers in the field, offer an original interpretation and reveal little-known or hitherto neglected aspects of one of the most controversial conflicts of the 20th century. { 285pp, December 2008; HB, £29.00, 8763504081:9788763504089 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| SUFFERING SAINTS : Jansenists & Convulsionnaires in France, 1640-1799 [Brian E Strayer] This comprehensive survey of Jansenism and Convulsionism in France is the only work currently available in English that attempts to place the Jansenist movement in the context of French political, social, economic, religious and intellectual developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author provides biographical sketches of its key leaders, analyzes their major writings, and highlights both the movement’s internal conflicts and its struggles against Church and State persecution. From letters, diaries, books and speeches, Brian Strayer explains such important Jansenist themes as suffering, saintliness, truth, conflict, passive resistance, and their gradual embracing of toleration. He provides fresh insights into asceticism, Gallicanism, Richerism, Conciliarism, Jesuitism, and Convulsionism in their historical contexts. With gentle wit, the author exposes the contradictions and paradoxes within the movement, shares human interest stories about the Port-Royal nuns, and shows how papal bulls poisoned the religious and political life in France from 1643 to 1713 and beyond. "Suffering Saints" is the result of five years of research in primary and secondary sources from several major archives and libraries in Paris and the United States. { 324pp, 171x246mm, May 2008; HB, £55.00, 1845192451:9781845192457 , Sussex Academic Press } |