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  title info:
    title: Why democracy failed
    sub title: the agrarian origins of the Spanish Civil War
  name:
    name part: Simpson, James
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Carmona, Juan (Carmona Pidal)
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In this 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: Part 1. The European experience, economic and political development, 1870-1939 -- The modernization of European societies -- European agriculture in an age of economic instability -- Part 2. Spanish agriculture, economic development and democracy -- The limits to Spanish modernization, 1850-1936 -- Agricultural growth, regional diversity, and regional land-tenure regimes -- Part 3. Explaining the weakness of the family farm -- The family farm and the limits to village-level cooperation -- The persistence of the landed elites and the nature of farm lobbies -- Part 4. Rural elites, poverty, and the attempts at land reform -- Land ownership, economic development and poverty in Andalusia and southern Spain -- The limits to land reform -- Part 5. Rural conflicts and the polarization of village society -- Creating parties, political alliances, and interest groups : rural politics in the 1930s -- 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.
  note: James Simpson, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Juan Carmona, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-293) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-sp---
  subject:
    topic: Democratization
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Land reform
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
    topic: Economic aspects
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1936-1939
    topic: Causes
  subject:
    geographic: Spain
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1931-1939
  subject:
    geographic: Spain
    topic: Rural conditions
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: DP257 .S48 2020
  classification: 946.081/1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge studies in economic history
  identifier: 9781108487481
  identifier: 1108487483
  identifier: 9781108720380
  identifier: 1108720382
  identifier: 9781108766999
  identifier: 2019059910
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200203
    record change date: 20201021155526.0
    record identifier: in00004256588