Interrogating Francoism : History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain
- Submitting institution
-
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 28455500
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
-
10.5040/9781474296182
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781472576347
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Graham conceived, designed and curated this edited book to challenge comparative Anglo-American modernist perceptions that Francoism belongs to an ‘antiquarian niche’ in Europe’s violent twentieth century. She contributed one essay (‘Reform as Promise and Threat: political progressives and blueprints for change in Spain 1931-6’, pp. 69-96), and the introduction (‘Writing Spain’s Twentieth Century in(to) Europe’, pp. 1-24). Graham deployed her own international standing to bring together established leading scholars, while ‘hand-picking’ mid- and early-career specialist scholars to contribute. She worked closely with each one to shape the contours and content of their individual empirical chapters; and collaborated with them all in the actual writing process itself, to achieve the requisite thematic, conceptual – and stylistic – continuity/unity throughout. She also co-translated several of the essays, involving a further level of co-authoring. Though a freestanding project, Interrogating Francoism also mapped out the conceptual terrain of Graham’s continuing intervention in these debates, namely her 2018-21 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship ‘Prison worlds of Francoism 1936-1978’. This has allowed her to continue her project by exploring how Francoism’s enduring totalitarian political imaginary nevertheless impelled a process of neo-liberal industrialisation (via mass rural to urban migration) whose speed and socially destructive intensity was, in European terms, second only to that of Stalin’s Russia. Interrogating Francoism, thus, represents Graham’s overarching intellectual vision, and her forty years of wide empirical research, making it her own work far beyond her own two sole-authored pieces that appear within it, and any standard or conventional ‘editorship’. Her integrated intellectual research agenda gives it a coherence and ‘punch’ far above any ordinary edited volume: “Interrogating Francoism is a fine, authoritative collection of essays that shed light on what the excellent editor, Helen Graham, calls 'Europe's most successful and adaptive dictatorial culture'”, Donald Bloxham, Richard Pares Professor of History, University of Edinburgh.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
