Michael Richards is Associate Professor of European History at the University of the West of England. His previous publications include A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945 (Cambridge, 1998) and The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War (as co-editor, Cambridge, 2005).
Introduction: cultural trauma in Spain
Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. War memories since 1936: political, moral, social
2. Democracy, civil war, and intimate violence in the 1930s
Part II. Memories of War during the Franco Years: 3. Repression and remembrance: the victors' liturgy of memory
4. Repression and reproduction: social memory in the 1940s
5. Memory and politics: from Civil War to Cold War
6. Memory and migration: flight from the countryside during the 1950s
7. Commemorating Franco's peace: the 25th anniversary of the victory
8. Contesting Franco's peace: transformation from below in the 1960s
9. Transition and reconciliation: politics and the Church in the 1970s
Part III. Memories of War after Franco: 10. Transition and consent: the presence of the past, 1975-80
11. 'The level of our times': memory and modernisation, 1981-96
12. Collective identity and the ethics of memory, 1996-2007
Conclusion: the history of war memories in Spain
Sources and bibliography.
Introduction: cultural trauma in Spain; Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. War memories since 1936: political, moral, social; 2. Democracy, civil war, and intimate violence in the 1930s; Part II. Memories of War during the Franco Years: 3. Repression and remembrance: the victors' liturgy of memory; 4. Repression and reproduction: social memory in the 1940s; 5. Memory and politics: from Civil War to Cold War; 6. Memory and migration: flight from the countryside during the 1950s; 7. Commemorating Franco's peace: the 25th anniversary of the victory; 8. Contesting Franco's peace: transformation from below in the 1960s; 9. Transition and reconciliation: politics and the Church in the 1970s; Part III. Memories of War after Franco: 10. Transition and consent: the presence of the past, 1975-80; 11. 'The level of our times': memory and modernisation, 1981-96; 12. Collective identity and the ethics of memory, 1996-2007; Conclusion: the history of war memories in Spain; Sources and bibliography.
