The agony of Spanish liberalism : from revolution to dictatorship 1913-23 / edited by Francisco Jos Romero Salvado and Angel Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: The Agony of Spanish Liberalism and the Origins of Dictatorship: A European Framework; FJ.Romero Salvadó and A.Smith * Government, Parties and the King, 1913-1923; J.Moreno Luzón * Spain's Revolutionary Crisis of 1917: A Reckless Gamble; F.J.Romero Salvadó * An Impossible Unity: Revolution, Reform and Counter-revolution and the Spanish Left, 1917-1923; C.Ealham * The Red Dawn' of the Andalusian Countryside. Peasant Protest during the Bolshevik Triennium', 1918-1920; F.Cobo Romero * The Lliga Regionalista, the Catalan Right and the Making of the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship, 1916-1923; A.Smith * 'Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum'. The Catalan Employers' Dirty War, 1919-1923; F.J.Romero Salvadó * Nation and Reaction. Spanish Conservative Nationalism and the Restoration Crisis; A.Quiroga * The Moroccan Quagmire and the Crisis of Spain's Liberal System, 1917-1923; P.Laporte * The Making of an Interventionist Army; S.Balfour.

"An exploration of the causes of the growing schism within Spanish society between 1914-1923, and the political polarisation and social violence that culminated in the Spanish Civil War. Essays analyse the crisis and eventual downfall of Spain's elitist liberal order and its replacement by an authoritarian dictatorship"--