Why democracy failed : the agrarian origins of the Spanish Civil War
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Why democracy failed : the agrarian origins of the Spanish Civil War
(Cambridge studies in economic history)
Cambridge University Press, 2020
- : pbk
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  Gunma
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this distinctive new history of the origins of the Spanish Civil War, James Simpson and Juan Carmona tackle the highly-debated issue of why it was that Spain's democratic Second Republic failed. They explore the interconnections between economic growth, state capacity, rural social mobility and the creation of mass competitive political parties, and how these limited the effectiveness of the new republican governments, and especially their attempts to tackle economic and social problems within the agricultural sector. They show how political change during the Republic had a major economic impact on the different groups in village society, leading to social conflicts that turned to polarization and finally, with the civil war, to violence and brutality. The democratic Republic failed not so much because of the opposition from the landed elites, but rather because small farmers had been unable to exploit more effectively their newly found political voice.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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