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The French and Spanish Popular Fronts: Comparative Perspectives

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The French and Spanish Popular Fronts: Comparative Perspectives
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Martin S. Alexander
Edited by Helen Graham
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:292
Dimensions(mm): Height 226,Width 152
Category/GenreWorld history - from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521524223
ClassificationsDewey:324.17
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 6 June 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The menace of triumphant Nazism and fascism across Europe in the 1930s drove the left into unity with liberals, in order to make common cause against the extremist right. Popular Front initiatives were a significant attempt to bar the way to further fascist victories. This collection of essays focuses specifically on France and Spain as the only two countries where Popular Front coalitions won political power through the ballot box. From a comparative perspective the volume gathers leading experts on the 1930s who travel beyond the territory of orthodox political history. Taken together, their contributions provide the first multi-dimensional approach to the Front phenomenon. The Popular Fronts in France and Spain emerge here as more than elite political partnerships - they were movements of the masses in search of social, cultural and educational change.