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Jose M. Faraldo
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Contemporary History, Faculty Member
- Occupation and Resistance in WW2, Communist Secret Police, Cold War and Culture, History of Everyday Life, Transnational History, Comparative History, and 71 moreEastern European history, Alltagsgeschichte, Contemporary History, History and Memory, Poland, Anti-Communist resistance, Anti-nazi resistance, Intelligence History, European Integration History, Communism, Historiography, Cultural History, GULAG, Memoria Historica, Visual Culture, Solidarnosc, Nationalism And State Building, Soviet Union (History), Cultural Landscapes, 1968, history of Poland, Socialisms, Russian Nationalism, Soviet History, Radio Madryt, Heavy Metal Music, Łobodowski, Police History, Tourism Studies, History Of Emotions, Stalin and Stalinism, Romanian History, Resistance (Social), Policja Państwowa (Polish National Police of 2nd Polish Republic), Policja Polityczna (Political Police), Policja Kryminalna (Cryminal Police), służba śledcza (investigative service), Więziennictwo (Penitentiary System), Sądownictwo (Judiciary), Tourism, Border Studies, History of Communism; Soviet; Post-Soviet; Russia; Eastern Europe, Russian Studies, Spanish History, Russian History, Culture in the Soviet Union, Romanian Communist secret police, Historia Urbana, Historia de Madrid, Urban History, Nationalism, Architectural History, History of architecture, Historia de la Arquitectura, Arquitectura y urbanismo, Architectur/Landscape Reconstruction in Urban/Cultural Landscape after Disaster, History, Marxism, Russian Revolution, Historia de Rusia, Revolución Rusa, Urss, Historia Cultural, Marxismo, Estudios sobre Violencia y Conflicto, Historia, Historia Social, Lenin, Comparative Research on Fascism, постсоветская Россия, and постсоветская наукаedit
The book traces the history of the secret police of various countries of communist Europe, how they formed and began their repressive activity. He describes their espionage work, their action to combat dissidence and the vigilance they... more
The book traces the history of the secret police of various countries of communist Europe, how they formed and began their repressive activity. He describes their espionage work, their action to combat dissidence and the vigilance they exercised over the population. It focuses first on the Soviet secret police (from the Cheká, the NKVD and the KGB) to analyze later three other cases (the Stasi in the German Democratic Republic, the Securitate in Romania and the SB in Poland). Study the influence of police activities on the transitions to democracy and the "memory conflicts" caused by the exposure to the public of the names of the informers and collaborators. As an example of the action of the secret police, the author uses unpublished documents from the archives, part of them related to Spain, the Spanish and the work carried out by his spies in the country. This is a book about what surveillance and repression means and, although it refers specifically to the communist era, it is linked to the debates around facebook, WikiLeaks and surveillance by state agencies and social network companies.
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A caballo entre la síntesis y la interpretación, pero con uso de investigación propia, "La Revolución rusa: Historia y memoria" ofrece un enfoque de este acontecimiento histórico que se aparta de lo trillado y del relato de las vidas de... more
A caballo entre la síntesis y la interpretación, pero con uso de investigación propia, "La Revolución rusa: Historia y memoria" ofrece un enfoque de este acontecimiento histórico que se aparta de lo trillado y del relato de las vidas de los dirigentes victoriosos de Octubre. Aprovechando la avalancha de material procedente de los archivos de la antigua URSS que puso a disposición de los historiadores y estudiosos el efímero paréntesis que transcurrió entre Gorbachov y el ascenso al poder de Vladímir Putin (la llamada "década memorable"), José M. Faraldo se centra en transmitir una instantánea del episodio y de los años inmediatamente posteriores a él, reflejado desde la experiencia de los protagonistas con ayuda de los documentos y registros vivos, palpitantes. El resultado es una crónica original, ágil y reveladora de la Revolución rusa, desde su estallido hasta la construcción de un nuevo Estado, un nuevo régimen y una nueva cultura, complementado por sendos capítulos dedicados a su interpretación y a su memoria.
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"Underground Europe. Resistance against nazi and soviet occupations (1938-1948) It is a first attempt of compare the East and West European movements of resistance against the two main totalitarianisms in the years around the IIGM.... more
"Underground Europe. Resistance against nazi and soviet
occupations (1938-1948)
It is a first attempt of compare the East and West European movements of resistance against the two main totalitarianisms in the years around the IIGM. I integrate their different ideological and regional characteristics in a global European narration, going beyond Cold War schemes.
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occupations (1938-1948)
It is a first attempt of compare the East and West European movements of resistance against the two main totalitarianisms in the years around the IIGM. I integrate their different ideological and regional characteristics in a global European narration, going beyond Cold War schemes.
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This collection of articles on Polish history after 1945 begins with a study of the reconstruction of Polish towns after the World War II, presenting how ideological images of the nation transformed the physical form of urban landscapes.... more
This collection of articles on Polish history after 1945 begins with a study of the reconstruction of Polish towns after the World War II, presenting how ideological images of the nation transformed the physical form of urban landscapes. The book devotes also a long part to individual identities, exploring the most intimate level of representation of consciousness: autobiographies of Polish immigrants into former German territories. The last two articles explore the identitarian adaptation of Polish anticommunist emigrants in Spain and the possibilities of dispute about Europe at the beginning of Communist regimes in Poland and Central Europe. The book puts problems of private identities in the context of European discourses, showing how politics are a part of individual lives, too.
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The Communist rulers profoundly distrusted the idea of European unification. For them the process of Western European integration was an alliance of imperialist states that fought under American leadership against the Socialist Block.... more
The Communist rulers profoundly distrusted the idea of European unification. For them the process of Western European integration was an alliance of imperialist states that fought under American leadership against the Socialist Block. Nevertheless, the idea of Europe did not completely disappear in State Socialism. This book traces concepts and images of Europe in different countries East of the Iron Curtain. Articles in German and English present the official discourses on Europe and the opposition’s counter-image of Europe, in the Warsaw Pact countries and in the émigré circles in Western Europe. The results are unambiguous and all point in the same direction: Europe was also reflected upon in the Socialist camp and even during Stalinist times images of Europe were not only critically defensive but often astoundingly approving and positive.
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Reconsidering a Lost Intellectual Project: Exiles’ Reflections on Cultural Differences Editor: Carolina Rodríguez-López and José M. Faraldo Date Of Publication: Apr 2012 Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3649-4 Isbn: 1-4438-3649-4 This book... more
Reconsidering a Lost Intellectual Project: Exiles’ Reflections on Cultural Differences
Editor: Carolina Rodríguez-López and José M. Faraldo
Date Of Publication: Apr 2012
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3649-4
Isbn: 1-4438-3649-4
This book explores an aspect of the complex cultural history of 20th-century exile: the influences of transnational experiences on the views of emigrants and exiles concerning their own academic, scientific and intellectual cultures. These essays focus on the reflections of people who left their countries during the period of 1933–1945. Many of them reconsidered their own past in the old country and compared it with their actual experiences in the adopted homeland. The individual cases presented here share a similar theoretical framework. The book is divided into two sections: the first one focuses on the German and Spanish lost project, and the second one deals with the East European projects – focused on Polish and Rumanian examples above all.
From the perspective of transnational history, Merel Leeman analyzes the cases of two special exiles: George Mosse and Peter Gay. Spaniards’ American projects is the main topic of Carolina Rodríguez-López’s analysis of Spanish scholars in the US. Natacha Bolufer focuses on associations and newspapers like Liberación which paid special attention to Spanish leftists suffering from Franco’s political measures. José M. Faraldo looks at the cases of refugees from Eastern European countries – mainly from Romania and Poland – who escaped to Spain after the fall of the axis in 1945. Mihaela Albu describes the diversity and plurality of Romanian exiles in the Western world, in diverse countries of Europe and also in the US.
This book aims to encourage the dialogue and comparison among diverse exiles.
Carolina Rodríguez-López is Assistant Professor at Complutense University of Madrid. Her research interests include the history of the university (education institutions and academic elites alike), intellectual history and cultural transfers (mainly academic exiles) and historiography trends. Her publications include Tradición, autoridad y monarquía. Pío Zabala y Lera y su España bajo los Borbones (Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 2009) and La Universidad de Madrid en el primer franquismo: ruptura y continuidad (1939–1951) (Madrid: Dykinson, 2002).
José M. Faraldo is Profesor Investigador (Ramón y Cajal Program) at the Complutense University of Madrid. His researches focus on communism, nationalism, visual and popular culture and comparative history of the European resistance to fascism and communism. His publications include La Europa Clandestina. La Resistencia contra las ocupaciones nazi y soviética (1938–1948) (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2011) and Europe, Nation, Communism: Essays on Poland (New York, Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, 2008).
Editor: Carolina Rodríguez-López and José M. Faraldo
Date Of Publication: Apr 2012
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3649-4
Isbn: 1-4438-3649-4
This book explores an aspect of the complex cultural history of 20th-century exile: the influences of transnational experiences on the views of emigrants and exiles concerning their own academic, scientific and intellectual cultures. These essays focus on the reflections of people who left their countries during the period of 1933–1945. Many of them reconsidered their own past in the old country and compared it with their actual experiences in the adopted homeland. The individual cases presented here share a similar theoretical framework. The book is divided into two sections: the first one focuses on the German and Spanish lost project, and the second one deals with the East European projects – focused on Polish and Rumanian examples above all.
From the perspective of transnational history, Merel Leeman analyzes the cases of two special exiles: George Mosse and Peter Gay. Spaniards’ American projects is the main topic of Carolina Rodríguez-López’s analysis of Spanish scholars in the US. Natacha Bolufer focuses on associations and newspapers like Liberación which paid special attention to Spanish leftists suffering from Franco’s political measures. José M. Faraldo looks at the cases of refugees from Eastern European countries – mainly from Romania and Poland – who escaped to Spain after the fall of the axis in 1945. Mihaela Albu describes the diversity and plurality of Romanian exiles in the Western world, in diverse countries of Europe and also in the US.
This book aims to encourage the dialogue and comparison among diverse exiles.
Carolina Rodríguez-López is Assistant Professor at Complutense University of Madrid. Her research interests include the history of the university (education institutions and academic elites alike), intellectual history and cultural transfers (mainly academic exiles) and historiography trends. Her publications include Tradición, autoridad y monarquía. Pío Zabala y Lera y su España bajo los Borbones (Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 2009) and La Universidad de Madrid en el primer franquismo: ruptura y continuidad (1939–1951) (Madrid: Dykinson, 2002).
José M. Faraldo is Profesor Investigador (Ramón y Cajal Program) at the Complutense University of Madrid. His researches focus on communism, nationalism, visual and popular culture and comparative history of the European resistance to fascism and communism. His publications include La Europa Clandestina. La Resistencia contra las ocupaciones nazi y soviética (1938–1948) (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2011) and Europe, Nation, Communism: Essays on Poland (New York, Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, 2008).
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Este libro es una síntesis de la historia del turismo. En él se describen las formas en que los seres humanos se han enfrentado al fenómeno del viaje, hasta llegar al descubrimiento del placer de viajar y del viaje de placer. Se narran... more
Este libro es una síntesis de la historia del turismo. En él se describen las formas en que los seres humanos se han enfrentado al fenómeno del viaje, hasta llegar al descubrimiento del placer de viajar y del viaje de placer. Se narran cronológicamente las prácticas de viaje que se han desarrollado a lo largo de la historia, partiendo de los antecedentes más directos del turismo. El foco geográfico del libro es Europa, porque es en este continente donde ha surgido lo que se ha llamado «turismo de masas», aunque a veces haya referencias a otras partes del mundo.
Los anexos al final del libro, dedicados a la cultura visual del turismo, muestran un aspecto importante en la historia del
turismo de masas: el turismo, como fenómeno cultural, ha ido
creando sus propias imágenes mentales.
Los anexos al final del libro, dedicados a la cultura visual del turismo, muestran un aspecto importante en la historia del
turismo de masas: el turismo, como fenómeno cultural, ha ido
creando sus propias imágenes mentales.
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Change and continuity in the Russian Revolution: a debate
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The simbolic writting of the social reality: the example of Stalin's constitution
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The article researches the mental and physical formulation of the vital spaces in the Soviet Union in the period before the first five years plan. Analysing the contested images developed by the various groups and at the actual... more
The article researches the mental and physical formulation of the vital spaces in the Soviet Union in the period before the first five years plan. Analysing the contested images developed by the various groups and at the actual Bolsheviks' world images, the text compares such representations with their implementation in the public spaces. High culture, architecture, monuments and urban topography are used as means to decode the formation of a "landscape", in the sense of a constructed space where people lives.
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Visual Culture, Urban History, Nationalism, Socialisms, and 13 moreArchitectural History, History of Everyday Life, Poland, History of architecture, Historia Urbana, Historia de la Arquitectura, História Urbana, Arquitectura y urbanismo, Banal nationalism, Historia del Urbanismo, Architectur/Landscape Reconstruction in Urban/Cultural Landscape after Disaster, História Da Arquitetura E Do Urbanismo, and Nationalism and Architecture
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Abstract: This article puts forward a model for the analysis of resistance against both communism and fascism in the specific period of time around WWII (1938–48/53). Such a model accommodates the experiences of Eastern and Western... more
Abstract: This article puts forward a model for the analysis of resistance against both communism and fascism in the specific period of time around WWII (1938–48/53). Such a model accommodates the experiences of Eastern and Western Europe, more precisely the fights against various types of fascisms and against the expansion of Soviet-type of communism. This type of analysis integrates different, but interrelated manifestations of resistance: discourses, political actions, military activities and everyday cultural practices. My research on resistance is methodologically inspired by the new trend in historiography initiated by the history of emotions.
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The article describes the origins of Communist political police in the Central and East European countries of the Eastern Bloc from 1944/1945, examines the present literature about the problem, describes the political consequences of the... more
The article describes the origins of Communist political police in
the Central and East European countries of the Eastern Bloc from 1944/1945, examines the present literature about the problem, describes the political consequences of the political police’s legacy and defines some possibilities of researching it.
the Central and East European countries of the Eastern Bloc from 1944/1945, examines the present literature about the problem, describes the political consequences of the political police’s legacy and defines some possibilities of researching it.
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En el texto se examinan algunas de las implicaciones que detenninadas teorías provenientes del campo de las ciencias físicas, como las dinámicas no lineales y los fractales, podrían tener para la ciencia histórica. También se repasan... more
En el texto se examinan algunas de las implicaciones que detenninadas teorías provenientes del campo de las ciencias físicas, como las dinámicas no lineales y los fractales, podrían tener para la ciencia histórica. También se repasan algunas recientes aplicaciones de dichas teorías a la historia, se proponen algunas posibilidades y se critican otras.
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La emigración polaca en España fue históricamente muy escasa. De ahí que las acciones de ayuda y apoyo a Solidarność resultaran muy débiles en comparación con otros países europeos. Hubo por un lado una cierta solidaridad por parte de... more
La emigración polaca en España fue históricamente muy escasa. De ahí que las acciones de ayuda y apoyo a Solidarność resultaran muy débiles en comparación con otros países europeos. Hubo por un lado una cierta solidaridad por parte de miembros del sindicato polaco con apoyo de sindicalistas españoles y hubo una leve acción de envío de ayuda económica por parte de los nuevos refugiados y de la más antigua colonia proveniente de la época de posguerra. En definitiva y, pese a su pequeño tamaño, la Polonia española no dudó en mantener lazos con sus atribulados compatriotas en el país.
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Imperios colapsados: consecuencias de 1917 en el Mediterráneo y el Mundo Madrid, 15-17 noviembre 2017 El centenario de las revoluciones rusas de 1917 es un buen momento para repensar las consecuencias del colapso de imperios y Estados... more
Imperios colapsados: consecuencias de 1917 en el Mediterráneo y el Mundo
Madrid, 15-17 noviembre 2017
El centenario de las revoluciones rusas de 1917 es un buen momento para repensar las consecuencias del colapso de imperios y Estados que, comenzando en aquel punto, se han repetido después a lo largo del siglo XX. En este congreso hablaremos de las disoluciones de imperios y descolonizaciones después de 1917 en comparación espacial y cronológica y en el ámbito de lo que significó la revolución bolchevique como fenómeno político, social, cultural y geoespacial. Exploraremos algunos aspectos de la memoria de las revoluciones rusas, pero examinaremos también los problemas de las infraestructuras de la memoria de otros imperios colapsados y de las naciones que se independizaron o encontraron una soberanía que implicaba otra construcción de memoria. Nos centraremos en el área euroasiática, Egipto, Oriente Medio, así como en Turquía, Israel y España.
Financiación: proyecto "Collapsed empires, Post-colonial Nations and the Construction of Historical Consciousness. Infrastructures of Memory after 1917". (Mineco: HAR2015-64155-P)
Madrid, 15-17 noviembre 2017
El centenario de las revoluciones rusas de 1917 es un buen momento para repensar las consecuencias del colapso de imperios y Estados que, comenzando en aquel punto, se han repetido después a lo largo del siglo XX. En este congreso hablaremos de las disoluciones de imperios y descolonizaciones después de 1917 en comparación espacial y cronológica y en el ámbito de lo que significó la revolución bolchevique como fenómeno político, social, cultural y geoespacial. Exploraremos algunos aspectos de la memoria de las revoluciones rusas, pero examinaremos también los problemas de las infraestructuras de la memoria de otros imperios colapsados y de las naciones que se independizaron o encontraron una soberanía que implicaba otra construcción de memoria. Nos centraremos en el área euroasiática, Egipto, Oriente Medio, así como en Turquía, Israel y España.
Financiación: proyecto "Collapsed empires, Post-colonial Nations and the Construction of Historical Consciousness. Infrastructures of Memory after 1917". (Mineco: HAR2015-64155-P)
Research Interests: Russian Studies, Imperial History, Mediterranean Studies, Russian History, History of Imperialism, and 9 moreRussian Revolution, Spain (History), Contemporary History of Spain, Imperialism, Russian Empire, Historia Contemporánea de España, Revolución Rusa, Russian Revolution 1917, and Historia de Rusia
Project HAR2015-64155-P (Spanish Ministry of Economy, 2016-2018) When empires and no longer legitimated states collapse, new states come into life. Former states split apart; some nations gain independence, and some of them are capable to... more
Project HAR2015-64155-P (Spanish Ministry of Economy, 2016-2018)
When empires and no longer legitimated states collapse, new states come into life. Former states split apart; some nations gain independence, and some of them are capable to form their own states whereas some merge with others. After collapse of empires and after independency of nations, the physical containment of cultural identities and their administrative performance often change. Our project focus on the consequences of the imperial and state collapses after 1917 in spatial and chronological comparison, researching the concrete transformations of Infrastructures of Memory (IoM). The effects of World War I in terms of creating or transforming institutions to keep or –re-imagining the collective memory of such states, were overwhelming. We want to compare this processes with the post-world war II independencies and/or consolidation of post-colonial states (such as Morocco and Egypt) and with the independencies after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989/91.
When empires and no longer legitimated states collapse, new states come into life. Former states split apart; some nations gain independence, and some of them are capable to form their own states whereas some merge with others. After collapse of empires and after independency of nations, the physical containment of cultural identities and their administrative performance often change. Our project focus on the consequences of the imperial and state collapses after 1917 in spatial and chronological comparison, researching the concrete transformations of Infrastructures of Memory (IoM). The effects of World War I in terms of creating or transforming institutions to keep or –re-imagining the collective memory of such states, were overwhelming. We want to compare this processes with the post-world war II independencies and/or consolidation of post-colonial states (such as Morocco and Egypt) and with the independencies after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989/91.
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en: José María Ortiz de Orruño y José Antonio Pérez (coords.) Construyendo memorias. Relatos históricos para Euskadi después del terrorismo, Madrid: Catarata 2013
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Research Interests: Film Studies, Polish History, Nationalism, Communism, National Identity, and 19 morePublic Sphere, Film History, Polish Literature, Polish Studies, History of Communication, History of Nationalism, Poland, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Public Space, History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Movies, History of Communism, Teutonic Knights, The military religious orders of the Middle Ages : the Hospitallers, the Templars, the Teutonic knights, and others, Medieval Poland, Polish Media, Polish Movies, Aleksander Ford, and Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
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Bringing together leading scholars from a range of nations, Rethinking Antifascism provides a fascinating exploration of one of the most vibrant sub-disciplines within recent European historiography. Through case studies that exemplify... more
Bringing together leading scholars from a range of nations, Rethinking Antifascism provides a fascinating exploration of one of the most vibrant sub-disciplines within recent European historiography. Through case studies that exemplify the field’s breadth and sophistication, it examines antifascism in two distinct realms: after surveying the movement’s remarkable diversity across nations and political cultures up to 1945, the volume assesses its postwar political and ideological salience, from its incorporation into Soviet state doctrine to its radical questioning by historians and politicians. Avoiding both heroic narratives and reflexive revisionism, these contributions offer nuanced perspectives on a movement that helped to shape the postwar world.
Research Interests: Fascism, Totalitarianism, Transnational History, Anti-nazi resistance, 20th century (History), and 11 moreInterwar Period History, Spanish Civil War, Transnational Feminism, History of Communism, Historical Revisionism, Antifascism, Antifascismo, History of Socialism, History of the Left, Antifascisme, and European political cultures
Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2014. 546 pp.
http://puz.unizar.es/detalle/1579/Pol%EDticas+de+la+violencia.+Europa%2C+siglo+XX-0.html
http://puz.unizar.es/detalle/1579/Pol%EDticas+de+la+violencia.+Europa%2C+siglo+XX-0.html
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Research Interests: Romanian History, Fascism, Romanian Studies, Exile, Exile Literature, and 10 moreRomania, History of Communism, Nationalsocialism, history of Poland, Spanish Republican Exile Literature, Spanish Republican Exile, German Exile Literature, Nationalsozialismus, German Scholars In Exile, and Polish Exile
The centenary of the Russian revolutions of 1917 is a good time to rethink the consequences of collapsed empires and states that beginning at that point in time then have repeated throughout the twentieth century. In this conference, will... more
The centenary of the Russian revolutions of 1917 is a good time to rethink the consequences of collapsed empires and states that beginning at that point in time then have repeated throughout the twentieth century. In this conference, will be examined the dissolution of empires and the decolonizations after 1917 in spatial and chronological comparison, regarding what the Bolshevik Revolution meant as a political, social, cultural and geospatial phenomenon. The aim is to pay special attention to the Mediterranean Basin, although global and transnational analyses are also welcome. We want to examine these developments within the perspective of the processes of independences after the Second World War as well as in relation to the consolidation of the post-colonial states (for example Morocco and Egypt). We are also interested in the exact inverse process: the independence and the recovery of full sovereignty after the collapsed of the Soviet Union 1989-1991.
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Presentación de La guerra fascista. Italia en la Guerra Civil Española (Alianza, 2016).
Madrid: Librería Cervantes y Compañía, C/ Pez 27
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Madrid: Librería Cervantes y Compañía, C/ Pez 27
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This volume tackles one of the basic questions in nationalism studies as formulated by Katherine Verdery: How do people become national? To examine how the nation entered ordinary people’s ‘insides’, this book focuses on their affective... more
This volume tackles one of the basic questions in nationalism studies as formulated by Katherine Verdery: How do people become national? To examine how the nation entered ordinary people’s ‘insides’, this book focuses on their affective lives. As such its objective is to bridge a double gap: the neglect of both emotions and the everyday realm in historical research on nationalism. On the one hand, Benedict Anderson’s question ‘why [do nations] command such profound emotional legitimacy’ , has long befuddled historians, who have been late-comers to the so-called 'affective turn'. On the other hand, historians have been taken to task for obsessing over the bells and whistles of nationalism and over-concentrating on the most articulate social groups. This collection of essays takes up the gauntlet. By analysing how nationalism harnesses, produces and feeds on emotions to pull ordinary people into its orbit, it refutes Anthony D. Smith’s critique that everyday nationalism research is necessarily imbued with an ‘ahistorical blocking presentism’. Using a variety of sources, methods and cases, ranging from Spain and the Netherlands during the age of Revolutions, nineteenth-century France and Belgium over interwar Italy, Germany and Romania, to war-torn Finland, and post-WWII Poland, this volume demonstrates that emotions are integral to understanding the everyday pull of nationalism on ordinary people.