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Political Comedy and Social Tragedy: Spain, a Laboratory of Social Conflict, 1892-1921 (Lse Studies in Spanish History) (in English)
Francisco J. Romero Salvadó
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Liverpool University Press
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Political Comedy and Social Tragedy: Spain, a Laboratory of Social Conflict, 1892-1921 (Lse Studies in Spanish History) (in English) - Romero Salvado, Francisco J.
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Synopsis "Political Comedy and Social Tragedy: Spain, a Laboratory of Social Conflict, 1892-1921 (Lse Studies in Spanish History) (in English)"
A prequel to the authors previous monographs on the Great War and the Foundations of the Spanish Civil War, this book analyses the troubled and often violent path of Spain to modernity. During the nearly 30 years of history explored (18921921), the country appeared to be caught in a kind of Groundhog Day. It was rocked in the 1890s by an ill-fated colonial adventure and a spiral of anarchist terrorism and praetorian-led repression, mostly in Barcelona, which culminated with the murder of the Conservative prime minister, Antonio Canovas, in August 1897. Twenty-four years later, Spain was undergoing a similar set of circumstances: a military quagmire in Morocco and vicious social warfare, with its epicentre in the Catalan capital, which resulted in the killing of the then Conservative prime minister, Eduardo Dato, in March 1921. The chronological framework highlights the gradual crisis, but also resilience, of the ruling Restoration Monarchy. Francisco Romero Salvado pursues thethesis that this crisi
