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Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War
Brian D. Bunk
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Description for Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War
Paperback. Deals with central problem in modern Spanish history-- why did civil war break out in 1936-- arguing that cultural representations of earlier revolution helped trigger the war through focus on social tensions around religion and gender. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DSE; GTB; HBJD; HBLW; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to the revolution of October 1934 triggered the broader conflict by accentuating existing social tensions surrounding religion and gender. Through careful analysis of the images produced in books, newspapers, posters, rallies, and meetings, Bunk contends that Spain’s civil war was not inevitable. Commemorative imagery produced after October 1934 bridged the gap between rhetoric and action by dehumanizing opponents and encouraging violent action against them.
In commemorating the uprising, revolutionaries and conservatives used the same methods to promote radically different political agendas: they deployed religious imagery to characterize the political situation as a battle between good and evil, with the fate of the nation hanging in the balance, and exploited traditional gender stereotypes to portray themselves as the defenders of social order against chaos. The resulting atmosphere of polarization combined with increasing political violence to plunge the country into civil war.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822339434
SKU
V9780822339434
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About Brian D. Bunk
Brian D. Bunk is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Click here to visit the author’s website
Reviews for Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War
“Ghosts of Passion is an important contribution to the historiography of the Spanish Civil War. In this convincing work of revisionist scholarship, Brian D. Bunk aligns himself with those who do memory studies and with a newer crop of Hispanists who see cultural forces as being just as important—if not more important—than economic or political forces in sparking the Civil War.”—Sandie Holguín, author of Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain “In this clear and accessible book, Brian D. Bunk complicates the historiography on the origins of the Civil War by injecting a cultural perspective and developing the still-nascent study of historical memory in Spanish history. He successfully links a single case study of memory (of the October 1934 Revolution) to larger interpretive debates that transcend the particular topic.”—Pamela Radcliff, author of From Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City of Gijón, 1900–1937