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Author Bunk, Brian D., 1968- author.

Title Ghosts of passion : martyrdom, gender, and the origins of the Spanish Civil War / Brian D. Bunk
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction -- The Revolution of October 1934 -- Sacred blood : the martyrs of Turón and conservative politics -- "Your comrades will not forget!" revolutionary martyrs and political unity -- Grandsons of the Cid : masculinity, sexual violence, and the destruction of the family -- Hyenas, harpies, and proletarian mothers : commemorating female participation -- The October Revolution in democratic Spain
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index
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Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
Military participation -- Female
Social aspects
War -- Causes
Entstehung
Spanischer Bürgerkrieg.
SUBJECT Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Causes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126113
Asturias (Spain) -- History -- Revolution, 1934. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009037
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Social aspects
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, Female
Subject Spain
Spain -- Asturias
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822389569
0822389568