James Simpson

Why Democracy Failed (eBook, PDF)

The Agrarian Origins of the Spanish Civil War

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this distinctive new 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108806022
• Artikelnr.: 66182919

Autorenporträt

Growing up in the aftermath of the Video Nasties, during the late eighties and early nineties, James Simpson is from a small town in the North East of England where talking about grisly horror flicks was the norm in his school playground. For the last few years, he has written about cult cinema for several magazines and websites as well as running his own-now-defunct site: Infernal Cinema. He has interviewed horror stars Emily Booth, Barbie Wilde, and the legendary Lloyd Kaufman, amongst others, during this time. He appears in the Jason Impey documentary: VIPCO: The Untold Story. This is his first book. His favourite VIPCO movie is Spookies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The European Experience: Economic and Political
Development, 1870-1939: 1. The modernization of European societies; 2.
European agriculture in an age of economic instability; Part II. Spanish
Agriculture, Economic Development and Democracy: 3. The limits to Spanish
modernization, 1850-1936; 4. Agricultural growth, regional diversity, and
regional land-tenure regimes; Part III. Explaining the Weakness of the
Family Farm: 5. The family farm and the limits to village - level
cooperation; 6. The persistence of the landed elites and the nature of farm
lobbies; Part IV. Rural Elites, Poverty, and the Attempts at Land Reform:
7. Land ownership, economic development and poverty in Andalusia and
southern Spain; 8. The limits to land reform; Part V. Rural Conflicts and
the Polarization of Village Society: 9. Creating parties, political
alliances, and interest groups: rural politics in the 1930s; 10. 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.