The Spanish Civil War in 100 Objects

Analysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal events of 20th century through a unique material culture lens. From the plane that carried Francisco Franco to an anarchist newsreel to laxatives excavated in a trench, and from a woman''s death row letter to a recent graphic novel, this highly illustrated text introduces readers to totally new perspectives from which to interpret the events of 1930s Spain and their impact, both in the country itself and the world beyond it.In engaging self-contained chapters - each inspired by a specific item - a team of historians offer a panoramic overview of the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship to which it gave birth, and the ways the conflict has been remembered since the return to democracy. The result is an innovative and accessible study which not only tells the fascinating story of modern Spain, but also teaches students how to engage fully with primary sources and grounds their understanding of the era by discussing objects that are, in some form or another, often still familiar to us today.>

Auteur
Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Trent University, Canada. He is the author of nine books, including (with Alison Ribeiro de Menezes and Adrian Shubert), Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War: Memory and the Digital in Contested Histories (2018), Franco: The Biography of the Myth (2013) and Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco's Spain (2009). Adrian Shubert is University Professor of History at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is the author of A Social History of Modern Spain, 1800-1990 (1990) and Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight (2001) and the co-editor, along with José Alvarez Junco, of The History of Modern Spain (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). His awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Killam Research Fellowship, and being named a Commander of the Order of Civil Merit by King Juan Carlos.

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Editors' Introduction Part 1 - The War 1. Dragon Rapide Airplane, July 1936 2. Queipo de Llano's microphone, July 1936 3. Button of the Great Orient Masonic Order, July 1936 4. "The Sea Must Be" school project, July 1936 5. The Pilatos Balcony, July 1936 6. Tiles before a firing squad, Summer 1936 7. A plough, Summer 1936 8. Report on the revolutionary movement in Barcelona (film), Summer 1936 9. Protective bracelet for Americans, August 1936 10. Piano stool, August 1936 11. San Simón Island, Summer 1936 12. Mujeres weekly magazine, 1936 13. The lost tomb of Federico García Lorca, August 1936 14. Betty Boop poster, August 1936 15. Rosary, Autumn 1936 16. "Stop bullet!" charm, Autumn 1936 17. International Brigades ID card, September 1936 18. T-26 tank, October 1936 19. Hall of the Valencia Silk Exchange, November 1936 20. 0.303 cartridge, November 1936 21. Enigma machine, November 1936 22. Urinal, November 1936 23. Cemetery of the Martyrs, November/December 1936 24. Norman Bethune's shoulder patch, December 1936 25. The bowl of a hash pipe, 1936-1937 26. Bookmobile for the front, 1937 27. Literacy primers, 1937 28. Record with Republican songs,1937 29. Leica camera, febrero 1937 30. "The Littlest One of All", February 1937 31. Tobacco, 1937 32. 25 Cent note from Granollers, 1937 33. Gas mask, 1937 34. Sima de Jinánar (Grand Canary Island), 1937 35. Child's drawing of "The bombing attack on the queue for milk", 1937 36. Dog tag, 1937 37. The Tree of Guernica, April 1937 38. SS Habana, May 1937 39. Diary of a Galician soldier, May 1937 40. Grenade from the Fifth Regiment, July 1937 41. Certificate of Service in the Irish Brigade, June 1937 42. Letter to Franco, July 1937 43. The Spanish Earth (film), July 1937 44. Joint Letter of the Spanish Bishops, August 1937 45. Cologne bottle, August 1937 46. Graves of Spanish children, August 1937/May 1938 47. Filing cabinets of the Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica, Summer 1937 48. Photograph of wet nurses, August 1937 49. Letter to a wartime pen pal, October 1937 50. Italian oath, November 1937 51. Militia woman's boiler suit, November 1937 52. Tether, December 1937 53. A soldier's Christmas money, January 1938 54. School notebook, January 1938 55. White Aid credentials, April 1938 56. "Letters for a Third Catalonia", May 1938 57. Defenders of the faith,1938 58. Fossilized bread, July 1938 59. Photos from the beach, July 1938 60. Submarine postage stamps, August 1938 61. M1915/16 Italian helmet, Autumn 1938 62. Bread bombs, October 1938 63. Laxatives, October 1938 64. "Psycho-technical" prison cell, 1938-1939 65. Zinc sheet, Castuera concentration camp, March 1939/March 1940 66. Advertisement from the Gurs concentration camp, April 1939 Part 2 - The Franco Dictatorship 67. Sketch of the shared grave of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, April 1939 68. Monument to the drowned of the Castillo de Olite, July 1939 69. Julia Conesa's death row letter, agosto 1939 70. Frame made by a member of the POUM who had been condemned to death, December 1939 71. Lavacolla airport, 1940 72. Plates and cake tins with false bottoms, 1939-45 73. Monument to the "Oath of the Yellow Plain", July 1940 74. "Concentration camp sketchbook", 1944 75. Ration coupons, 1944 76. The Flag at Mauthausen, 1945 77. "Cidade da Selva" guerrilla camp,1946 78. German underwater mines,1947 79. Key from a crate used to transfer human remains to the Valley of the Fallen, April 1959 80. En el balcón vacío (film), 1962 81. Mourir a Madrid (film), 1963 82. Franco, ese hombre (film), 1964 83. María Moliner's Dictionary, 1966 84. Debod gardens and temple, 1972 85. Diary of a "mole", 1976 Part 3 - Democracy 86. La vieja memoria (film), 1977 87. Statue of Franco, 1978 88. Three monuments in Punta Herminia, 1994 89. Land and Freedom (film), 1995 90. Monument to Alexandre Bóveda, 1996 91. Priaranza mass grave, 2000 92. The Fingerprint memorial of the Belt of Iron, 2005 93. Plaque for the Paseo de los Canadienses, Málaga, 2006 94. Casares Quiroga House and Museum, 2007 95. The void of Saturrarán prison, 2007 96. Libertad Fernández's typewriter, 2011 97. Dr. Uriel (comic book), 2013 98. La Brigada Lincoln (graphic novel),2018 99. Antoni Campañà's photographs, 2018 100. Pazo de Meirás country house Notes on Contributors Index