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- European University Institute, History and Civilization, AlumnusLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Historisches Seminar, Post-DocShanghai University, College of Liberal Arts, Department Memberadd
- Transnational History, Veterans, Global History, Fascism, European History, Francoism, and 34 moreNazism, Italian fascism, Interwar Period History, First World War, Contemporary History, Spanish Civil War, Contemporary History of Spain, Cultural History of War, Masculinity, Cold War, Franquismo, División Azul, History and Civilization, Transnational and World History, Interwar period, 1919 - 1939, Memories and Experiences of War, Demobilisation in 1918-1919, Historia Contemporánea de España, Modern Italian History, Weimar Republic, Combat Veterans, Comparative History, Transnationalism, Masculinities, History of Masculinities, Cold War and Culture, Cold War history, Early Postwar (1945-1950), History of Violence and War, Second World War, International History, History of Globalization, 20th Century Global History, and National Socialismedit
- I am a Lecturer in Twentieth Century European History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. I obtained my PhD in... moreI am a Lecturer in Twentieth Century European History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. I obtained my PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) in 2015. As a Modern Historian, my areas of expertise are international, transnational and global history, the history of fascism, and the social and cultural history of war in the twentieth century, with a focus on war veterans. I have been a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Munich and a Fellow at the Center for the History of Global Development (Shanghai University). My latest book, War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. I have also a track-record of publications on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship. My current research focuses on globalization, the Cold War era, and war veterans' international organizations.edit
This book explores, from a transnational viewpoint, the historical relationship between war veterans and fascism in interwar Europe. Until now, historians have been roughly divided between those who assume that ‘brutalization’ (George L.... more
This book explores, from a transnational viewpoint, the historical relationship between war veterans and fascism in interwar Europe. Until now, historians have been roughly divided between those who assume that ‘brutalization’ (George L. Mosse) led veterans to join fascist movements and those who stress that most ex-soldiers of the Great War became committed pacifists and internationalists. Transcending the debates of the brutalization thesis and drawing upon a wide range of archival and published sources, this work focuses on the interrelated processes of transnationalization and the fascist permeation of veteran politics in interwar Europe to offer a wider perspective on the history of both fascism and veterans’ movements. A combination of mythical constructs, transfers, political communication, encounters and networks within a transnational space explain the relationship between veterans and fascism. Thus, this book offers new insights into the essential ties between fascism and war and contributes to the theorization of transnational fascism.
Research Interests: History, European History, Military History, Modern History, Cultural History, and 54 moreFrench History, Violence, German History, Italian (European History), Modern Italian History, Transnationalism, International organizations, Historiography, Comparative History, War Studies, International History, Ideology, Fascism, Nationalism, Spanish History, History of Political Violence, Transnational History, Political Violence, History of International Relations, Vichy France, 20th Century German History, First World War, Social History, Interwar Period History, Dictatorships, Russian Revolution, Spanish Civil War, Weimar Republic, National Socialism, Modern Spanish History, Modern German History, Modern European History, Anti-Fascism, Fascist Italy, The League of Nations, Italian fascism, Francoism, Anti-communism, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Fascist propaganda, Veterans, Falange Española, Cultural History of the First World War, Third French Republic, Italo-Ethiopian War, Interwar period, 1919 - 1939, Bolshevism, Postwar Europe, Paramilitaries, Interwar Europe, Demobilization, Ex Combatants, and Pétain
This book examines war veterans’ history after 1945 from a global perspective. In the Cold War era, in most countries of the world there was a sizeable portion of population with direct war experience. This edited volume gathers... more
This book examines war veterans’ history after 1945 from a global perspective. In the Cold War era, in most countries of the world there was a sizeable portion of population with direct war experience. This edited volume gathers contributions which show the veterans’ involvement in all the major historical processes shaping the world after World War II. Cold War politics, racial conflict, decolonization, state-building, and the reshaping of war memory were phenomena in which former soldiers and ex-combatants were directly involved. By examining how different veterans’ groups, movements and organizations challenged or sustained the Cold War, strived to prevent or to foster decolonization, and transcended or supported official memories of war, the volume characterizes veterans as largely independent and autonomous actors which interacted with societies and states in the making of our times. Spanning historical cases from the United States to Hong-Kong, from Europe to Southern Africa, from Algeria to Iran, the volume situates veterans within the turbulent international context since World War II.
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The Francoist veterans were a fundamental group of the Franco regime's supporters. This reality justifies researching the Francoist veterans' movement with the same perspective employed to study other European fascist phenomena. This book... more
The Francoist veterans were a fundamental group of the Franco regime's supporters. This reality justifies researching the Francoist veterans' movement with the same perspective employed to study other European fascist phenomena. This book analyses, on the one hand, the history of the main veterans' organization of the Franco dictatorship - the Delegación Nacional de Excombatientes of FET-JONS -, and, on the other hand, the culture of war that the veterans mantained alive in Spain for decades. It argues that the political organization, the set of discourses and representations, and the management of the veterans' benefits allowed the Francoist regime to conveniently manipulate the veterans: men who were profoundly marked by the Spanish Civil War experience.
Los excombatientes franquistas fueron una parte fundamental del apoyo social al régimen de Franco, realidad que justifica observar el excombatentismo franquista con la misma perspectiva empleada para estudiar los fascismos europeos. Este libro analiza, por un lado, la historia de la principal organización de excombatientes de la dictadura franquista, la Delegación Nacional de Excombatientes de FET-JONS, y, por otro lado, la cultura de guerra que los veteranos de guerra mantuvieron viva en España durante décadas. Se explica cómo el encuadramiento, los discursos y representaciones y los mecanismos de gestión de privilegios sociales permitieron al régimen franquista manipular en su beneficio las identidades excombatientes de aquellos hombres marcados por la experiencia de la guerra civil española.
Los excombatientes franquistas fueron una parte fundamental del apoyo social al régimen de Franco, realidad que justifica observar el excombatentismo franquista con la misma perspectiva empleada para estudiar los fascismos europeos. Este libro analiza, por un lado, la historia de la principal organización de excombatientes de la dictadura franquista, la Delegación Nacional de Excombatientes de FET-JONS, y, por otro lado, la cultura de guerra que los veteranos de guerra mantuvieron viva en España durante décadas. Se explica cómo el encuadramiento, los discursos y representaciones y los mecanismos de gestión de privilegios sociales permitieron al régimen franquista manipular en su beneficio las identidades excombatientes de aquellos hombres marcados por la experiencia de la guerra civil española.
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¿Cómo logró el franquismo hacerse con una base social de masas para alzarse con el poder y sostenerse en él durante cuatro décadas? La pregunta, no exenta de polémicas, está siendo de candente actualidad en los debates historiográficos de... more
¿Cómo logró el franquismo hacerse con una base social de masas para alzarse con el poder y sostenerse en él durante cuatro décadas? La pregunta, no exenta de polémicas, está siendo de candente actualidad en los debates historiográficos de los últimos años. En primer lugar, se ha evidenciado cómo la sublevación de 1936 contra la II República hizo una brutal inversión en violencia represiva que le permitió destruir y someter a sus opositores, contando con un clima internacional propicio. No obstante, el franquismo también dejó abiertas vías de integración, por las que se adhirieron a la dictadura amplios y diversos sectores sociales. Lazos de Sangre aspira a explicar, a partir del caso zaragozano durante la guerra civil, cuáles fueron esas vías integradoras en la capital aragonesa de la retaguardia insurgente. Se demuestra cómo el exiguo núcleo originario del apoyo social a la sublevación procedió de la tupida red de intereses políticos, sociales y económicos de la burguesía propietaria y católica zaragozana, aunada con el fascismo. Y se explica cómo la experiencia bélica y la movilización forzada de la retaguardia, organizada ésta por la Junta Recaudatoria Civil, fueron los fenómenos catalizadores de la integración, con distintos grados de sinceridad e implicación, de una parte de las clases medias y populares zaragozanas en el nuevo Estado. En este proceso, los vínculos interclasistas de sociabilidad, patronazgo, parentesco, asociación, etc. permitieron construir una jerárquica base social de masas para la consolidación de la dictadura, a pesar de sus orígenes sangrientos.
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This article introduces the dossier 'Spatializing Transnational History: European spaces and territories'. It examines the intersections between transnational history and the so-called 'spatial turn' in social sciences, and points at... more
This article introduces the dossier 'Spatializing Transnational History: European spaces and territories'. It examines the intersections between transnational history and the so-called 'spatial turn' in social sciences, and points at future directions in historical research. It reviews two main different methodological approaches to the problem of space in transnational, comparative and global history and examines recent contributions on the history of territory. Finally, it introduces the contributions to this dossier, which approach the history of modern Europe from a number of transnational and spatial perspectives. The dossier argues that incorporating a combination of spatial approaches, ranging from the examination of transnational spaces, to the interplay between different scales of analysis, and to the historicization of territoriality, into the practice of transnational, comparative and global history may contribute to a deeper, wider and more complex understanding of 'Europe'.
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Geography, Globalization, and 15 moreTransnationalism, Methodology, Space and Place, Historiography, Comparative History, International History, World History, Mediterranean Studies, Transnational History, Theory of History, History of International Relations, Global History, Europeanization, Territoriality, and Spatial History
Historians have often considered the international veterans' organizations which came into being after World War I as proof of the pacifist, internationalist orientation of the majority of the Great War ex-combatants. However, veterans... more
Historians have often considered the international veterans' organizations which came into being after World War I as proof of the pacifist, internationalist orientation of the majority of the Great War ex-combatants. However, veterans active in these organizations were often inspired by specifically national and partisan objectives that belie any simplistic equation between altruistic transnational activism, international cooperation and pacifism. Conceiving of war veterans as transnational actors, this article explores the origins and decline of the veterans' transnational sphere in the interwar period. It singles out four shades of competing veterans' internationalism and describes the crucial differences that separated actors such as Henri Barbusse, René Cassin, Henri Pichot and Carlo Delcroix, among others. The article argues that both the veterans' organizations and their protagonists, while reaching out across national borders, remained embedded in specific constellations of personal trajectories, political partisanship, nation-state interests and interstate alliances. Their political and social activities also tried to reshape, and were subjected to, existing or emerging spatial configurations such as Great Power alliances and wider internationalist projects. Thus, the article shows that there was no homogeneous transnational sphere in international veteran politics; it was rather the competition between different internationalist practices and projects which shaped veterans' transnational activities.
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Despite the importance of war veterans issues in many nation-states after World War II, Cold War historians have never examined international veteran politics. By analysing scholarship and hitherto unexamined primary sources, this article... more
Despite the importance of war veterans issues in many nation-states after World War II, Cold War historians have never examined international veteran politics. By analysing scholarship and hitherto unexamined primary sources, this article surveys the realignments taking place in veteran politics in different countries and investigates the process leading to the creation of the World Veterans Federation in 1950. It argues that the Cold War profoundly shaped international veteran politics after 1945, and that veterans’ international organisations became political instruments and spaces of Cold War tensions. By revealing how Cold War events, particularly the Korean War, created opportunities for the veterans’ international activities under American leadership, this article offers insights into the impact of the Cold War on the transnational sphere.
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The early relations between Italian Fascism and German National Socialism are an understudied albeit crucial aspect of the history of fascism. This article explores the hypothesis that the Italian fascist movement influenced the... more
The early relations between Italian Fascism and German National Socialism are an understudied albeit crucial aspect of the history of fascism. This article explores the hypothesis that the Italian fascist movement influenced the development of the early NSDAP before 1922. While Fascism and Nazism were rooted in the same transnational ideological background, Italian Fascism emerged as a clearly distinct political phenomenon in 1919–1921. This article argues that Hitler’s NSDAP transformed into a fascist party and movement only after the example of Italian Fascism became well known in postwar Munich. By analysing German perceptions of Mussolini’s movement, particularly through Bavarian and Austrian newspapers, the article shows how völkisch ultra-nationalist groups came to see Fascism as a model to follow. The subsequent transformation of the NSDAP from the summer of 1921 onwards can be seen as a process of fascistization and hybridization in which the Italian fascist example was appropriated and adapted by the Nazis. Thus the article proposes advancing towards a transnational, rather than ‘generic,’ understanding of fascism.
Research Interests: European History, German History, Italian (European History), Political Violence and Terrorism, Ideology, and 15 moreFascism, Nationalism, Totalitarianism, Central European history, Political communication, Transnational History, Racism, 20th Century German History, Modern European History, Austrian History, Italian fascism, Nazism, Bavarian History, Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler
The establishment of the Franco regime entailed the consolidation of a set of ultra-conservative, Catholic, and fascist gender roles, as well as masculinity ideals. However, Francoist masculinity has been largely neglected by historians.... more
The establishment of the Franco regime entailed the consolidation of a set of ultra-conservative, Catholic, and fascist gender roles, as well as masculinity ideals. However, Francoist masculinity has been largely neglected by historians. This article examines the historical evolution of Francoist war veterans as a manly archetype. The article argues that this ideal of masculinity was hegemonic during most part of the dic- tatorship. By analysing journalistic, literary and filmic sources, and by observing the intimate and familiar dimension of the lives of men who fought and won the Spanish Civil War, the article explains the implications and transformations of such manly ideal, which drew on the driving notion of the “recreation of the warrior”. A mythical conception of the man as a war-experienced individual preserved its hegemony by fus- ing with other masculinity models, thus becoming a key factor to sustain social and familiar order and gender relations in Spanish society until the mid-1960s.
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This article argues that analysis and contextualization of the history of the Francoist veterans of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) leads to an understanding of Franco’s dictatorship as a fascist regime typical of the late 1930s and early... more
This article argues that analysis and contextualization of the history of the Francoist veterans of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) leads to an understanding of Franco’s dictatorship as a fascist regime typical of the late 1930s and early 1940s. It reveals the congruence of the regime with the phenomenon of neo-fascism during the Cold War era. Drawing on a large range of archival and published sources, this article examines the history of the main Francoist veterans’ organization, the Delegación Nacional de Excombatientes (DNE) of the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS (FET-JONS), between 1939 and 1959. The evolution of the Francoist veterans’ organizational structures and political discourses can be understood as part of a process of fascistization and defascistization, which provides rare insights into the overall relationship between fascism and war.
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This article explores the origins of the historical relationship between war veterans and Fascism. Transcending the predominant paradigm of the controversial ‘brutalization’ thesis (George L. Mosse), the article relies on a transnational... more
This article explores the origins of the historical relationship between war veterans and Fascism. Transcending the predominant paradigm of the controversial ‘brutalization’ thesis (George L. Mosse), the article relies on a transnational perspective that focuses on the interconnections between historical events and on processes of political communication and symbolic appropriation. Examining historical processes taking place in different European countries, as well as their effects on Mussolini and the Italian interventionists, the article argues that a transnational process of symbolic appropriation of the notion of the ‘veteran’, taking place between 1917 and 1919, is crucial to understand how the Fascist ideology and movement were born.
Research Interests: European History, Military History, Italian (European History), Modern Italian History, Italian Studies, and 12 moreFascism, Transnational History, Political Violence, First World War, Interwar Period History, Russian Revolution, Weimar Republic, Modern European History, Italian fascism, Benito Mussolini, Veterans, and Cultural History of the First World War
Resumen Este artículo explora el amplio debate internacional mantenido por historiadores con-temporaneístas en torno a la tesis de la " brutalización " , popularizada por George L. Mo-sse a partir de su libro Soldados caídos (1990), y... more
Resumen Este artículo explora el amplio debate internacional mantenido por historiadores con-temporaneístas en torno a la tesis de la " brutalización " , popularizada por George L. Mo-sse a partir de su libro Soldados caídos (1990), y según la cual la experiencia de gue-rra de los soldados del frente en la Primera Guerra Mundial habría sido la causa de los altos niveles de violencia política de la República de Weimar y, por ende, el origen del nacionalsocialismo y el genocidio. El artículo clarifica las raíces de la interpretación mosseana, analiza las críticas, reformulaciones y usos de la " brutalización " y conclu-ye que el fuerte debate mantenido, a pesar de no alcanzar consenso, terminó por con-sagrar una noción sugerente, aunque obscura y de cuestionable capacidad analítica, en el lenguaje profesional de los historiadores.
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One of the most important current debates on the history of Franco’s regime focuses on the political support that the dictatorship enjoyed. Many Francoist veterans of the Spanish Civil War became either active or passive collaborators and... more
One of the most important current debates on the history of Franco’s regime focuses on the political support that the dictatorship enjoyed. Many Francoist veterans of the Spanish Civil War became either active or passive collaborators and eventually transformed into members of the fascist party Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS (FET-JONS). In this article, I discuss the importance of the war veterans’ social benefits for the consolidation of the Franco dictatorship. I contend that the regime granted privileges, jobs and sinecures to the veterans, as methods of attracting their political allegiance. By organizing such system of benefits, the dictatorship did not save the masses of veterans from poverty, hunger and disease, but it did succeed in strengthening the veterans’ loyalty to Franco. I conclude, therefore, that the veteran politics of FET-JONS and the Franco regime were in harmony with both the Italian Fascist and German National Socialist examples of veteran politics.
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Attraverso la storia concettuale, questo articolo esplora l’origine storica del concetto di “combattentismo”, specificatamente nella sua chiara relazione col fascismo. L’analisi storico-concettuale permette di adottare una posizione... more
Attraverso la storia concettuale, questo articolo esplora l’origine storica del concetto di “combattentismo”, specificatamente nella sua chiara relazione col fascismo. L’analisi storico-concettuale permette di adottare una posizione critica rispetto all’utilizzazione del concetto nella storiografia. Seppure utilizzata dagli storici per descrivere gli eventi del periodo 1919-1922, la parola non si riscontra nelle fonti coeve. Attraverso lo studio delle fonti dagli anni ‘20 e ’30, l’articolo rivela l’esistenza di un importante dibattito politico intorno alla nozione stessa di combattentismo, dal 1923 in poi. Questa disputa discorsiva fu sintomo di conflitti esistenti tra il movimento degli ex-combattenti e il fascismo. L’articolo perviene ad una più precisa concettualizzazione della nozione di “combattentismo”.
Relying on conceptual history, this article explores the historical origins of the concept of “combattentismo”, which is clearly related to fascism. Conceptual-historical analysis allows the author to adopt a critical position regarding the use of “combattentismo” as a working concept in historiography. Even if it is used by historians to describe the events of 1919-1922, this word cannot be found in historical sources dating from those years. However, by studying sources from the 1920s and 1930s, the article reveals the existence of an important political debate around the very concept of “combattentismo”, from 1923 onwards. This discursive struggle was a symptom of the existing conflicts between the war veterans’ movement and fascism. The article concludes with a more precise conceptualization of the notion of “combattentismo”.
Relying on conceptual history, this article explores the historical origins of the concept of “combattentismo”, which is clearly related to fascism. Conceptual-historical analysis allows the author to adopt a critical position regarding the use of “combattentismo” as a working concept in historiography. Even if it is used by historians to describe the events of 1919-1922, this word cannot be found in historical sources dating from those years. However, by studying sources from the 1920s and 1930s, the article reveals the existence of an important political debate around the very concept of “combattentismo”, from 1923 onwards. This discursive struggle was a symptom of the existing conflicts between the war veterans’ movement and fascism. The article concludes with a more precise conceptualization of the notion of “combattentismo”.
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Este artículo explica los orígenes de la principal organización de excombatientes del régimen de Franco, la Delegación Nacional de Excombatientes de FET-JONS. Tras explorar los primeros planes franquistas para el licenciamiento de... more
Este artículo explica los orígenes de la principal organización de excombatientes del régimen de Franco, la Delegación Nacional de Excombatientes de FET-JONS. Tras explorar los primeros planes franquistas para el licenciamiento de combatientes concebidos durante la Guerra Civil y tras analizar los contactos políticos y transferencias que tuvieron lugar en 1939 entre las potencias fascistas y militares y políticos franquistas en torno a los rituales simbólicos del proceso de desmovilización, se argumenta que el excombatentismo franquista, en sus dimensiones organizativa y discursiva, fue un elemento de identidad entre el régimen de Franco y los fascismos europeos.
This article explains the origins of the main war veterans’ organization of the Francoist Regime, the Delegación Nacional de Excomba tientes of FET-JONS. First, I explore the initial Francoist plans conceived during the civil war for the demobilization of soldiers. Second, I analyse the political contacts and transfers that took place during 1939 between the fascist powers and several Francoist military and politicians, around the symbolic rituals of the demobilization process. As a result, I argue that Francoist excombatentismo, in its organizational and discursive expressions, was an element of identity between the Francoist regime and the European fascisms.
This article explains the origins of the main war veterans’ organization of the Francoist Regime, the Delegación Nacional de Excomba tientes of FET-JONS. First, I explore the initial Francoist plans conceived during the civil war for the demobilization of soldiers. Second, I analyse the political contacts and transfers that took place during 1939 between the fascist powers and several Francoist military and politicians, around the symbolic rituals of the demobilization process. As a result, I argue that Francoist excombatentismo, in its organizational and discursive expressions, was an element of identity between the Francoist regime and the European fascisms.
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Within a social and cultural framework on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco’s dictatorship, this article analyzes the making of the Myth of the «Heroic Deed» of Belchite, run by the francoist side in the view of the traumatic defeat... more
Within a social and cultural framework on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco’s dictatorship, this article analyzes the making of the Myth of the «Heroic Deed» of Belchite, run by the francoist side in the view of the traumatic defeat suffered in this Aragonese village in september 1937. Discourses and rituals performed around the Myth are studied, as well as the francoist veterans’ identities. These ele- ments were managed by the dictatorship in order to reinforce their so- cial support. Mythification bequeathed some social and cultural conse- quences still visible nowadays.
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This chapter analyses the Francoist myth of the peasant-soldier, which was employed to manipulate the Francoist veterans during the long postwar period. First, the chapter explores the transnational origins of this myth, particularly... more
This chapter analyses the Francoist myth of the peasant-soldier, which was employed to manipulate the Francoist veterans during the long postwar period. First, the chapter explores the transnational origins of this myth, particularly observing the evolution of the myth in Fascist Italy. Then, the use of the myth during the Spanish Civil War and the postwar period is pointed out. Finally, the myth is put into contrast with the harsh reality of the veterans' role and experiences in the Spanish rural spaces during the 1940s.
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This article explores the hypothesis that demobilized ex-combatants can constitute a conflictive group, which might aggravate social tensions, leading to civil war situations. For this purpose, the article examines the European interwar... more
This article explores the hypothesis that demobilized ex-combatants can constitute a conflictive group, which might aggravate social tensions, leading to civil war situations. For this purpose, the article examines the European interwar period, and the history of the First World War veterans. Firstly, the article assesses the historiography linked to the « brutalization » theory. Secondly, studies on the processes of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants (DDR), a perspective proposed by social and political scientists, is applied to the study of the interwar period. The article concludes that a comparative history of DDR might be useful to overcome the contradictions of the « brutalization » theory.
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This article talks about the origins of Francoism in Albacete with an approach that combines cultural and political history, in order to explain the construction of the social support to the dictatorship. In a province in which wartime... more
This article talks about the origins of Francoism in Albacete with an approach that combines cultural and political history, in order to explain the construction of the social support to the dictatorship. In a province in which wartime was experienced under the Republican dominion, the new Francoist authorities and political elites bumped into difficulties to consolidate the new State structured by the fascist party FET-JONS, due to the non-existence of a big group of properly indoctrinated veterans from Franco’s army. Nevertheless, the organization of the Blue Division would relatively resolve these problems, by means of war mobilization of the people of Albacete in front and homefront.
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In this article, I use a comparative approach to evidence the crucial role of veterans’ war cultures in the development of French and Spanish fascist movements. Research on this topic will improve historic knowledge on the concept of «... more
In this article, I use a comparative approach to evidence the crucial role of veterans’ war cultures in the development of French and Spanish fascist movements. Research on this topic will improve historic knowledge on the concept of « war culture », and its relationship to fascism and European veteran movements of the interwar period. I argue that, in spite of their representations and discourses, fascists were not able to massively mobilize war veterans against their legal Governments. However, Spanish (1939) and French (1940) dictatorships later used those discourses and images to obtain the veterans’ loyalty.
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There are two approaches to writing a significant history book. One is 'going big' and covering the broadest range of historical phenomena within a large geographical space during a wide time span. This approach makes use of vast and... more
There are two approaches to writing a significant history book. One is 'going big' and covering the broadest range of historical phenomena within a large geographical space during a wide time span. This approach makes use of vast and variegated historical bibliographies and well-selected primary sources. The result is an all-encompassing interpretation that helps to make sense of the chaotic matter of history. The other approach to writing a major contribution to historiography implies delving into the details instead: applying a microscope onto a few important historical events that took place in circumscribed time-spaces; gathering and closely analysing a great amount of empirical material that allows the researcher to provide a nuanced description of such events. This method has the ability to transform our understanding of history just as it can uncover previously unperceived factors that contributed to pushing historical events towards a specific direction. Mark Jones' book is a clear example of this second model of history writing, and there are reasons to believe that it will be regarded as a turning point in the way in which historians explain post-First World War revolutionary processes and political violence in the European continent. The German revolution of 1918–19 was one of the defining episodes of the 20th century. It was not only the outcome of a country's defeat in the greatest war that humanity had ever witnessed, but also the result of the efforts of important social and political forces that had long strived for democracy, liberty, and social equality. Within a few weeks after the German military leaders (who felt unable to win the war) had started to negotiate an armistice with the allies, a set of revolutionary protests and movements composed mainly of
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Historia Contemporánea, n. 52, 2016, pp. 352-354.
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Reseña de John Gooch, The Italian Army and the F irst World War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 386 pp.
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Reseña de Leira Castiñeira, Francisco J., La consolidación social del franquismo. La influencia de la guerra en los “soldados de Franco”, Santiago de Compostela, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2013, 166 pp.
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Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, European integration, Globalization, and 23 moreSoviet History, Cold War and Culture, Military Veterans, Combat Veterans, War Studies, Cold War, Pacifism, Second World War, Global History, Early Postwar (1945-1950), World War II, Soviet Union (History), United States History, Cold War International Relations, Cold War history, United States Foreign Policy, US History, Cold War Studies, Anti-communism, United States, Veterans, Post-World War II history, and Cold War politics
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The Francoist veterans were a fundamental group of the Franco regime's supporters. This reality justifies researching the Francoist veterans' movement with the same perspective employed to study other European fascist phenomena. This... more
The Francoist veterans were a fundamental group of the Franco regime's supporters. This reality justifies researching the Francoist veterans' movement with the same perspective employed to study other European fascist phenomena. This paper, based on my recent book on this subject, will explore, on the one hand, the history of the main veterans' organization of the Franco dictatorship - the Delegación Nacional de Excombatientes of FET-JONS -, and, on the other hand, the culture of war that the veterans maintained alive in Spain for decades. I argue that the political organization, the set of discourses and representations, and the management of the veterans' benefits allowed the Francoist regime to conveniently manipulate the veterans: men who were profoundly marked by the Spanish Civil War experience. Therefore, it will be possible to open a new theoretical debate on the relations of the Franco dictatorship with fascism.
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Research Interests: History, Peace and Conflict Studies, Terrorism, Combat Veterans, Security Studies, and 13 morePolitical Violence and Terrorism, Politics, History of Political Violence, Political Violence, European Union, Peacekeeping, Conflict Resolution, Syria, Middle East Politics, PTSD, Jihad, Veterans, and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR)
The history of war veterans movements and politics around the world is a growing and fertile historiographical field. War veterans have often formed political lobbies, conducted protest campaigns for pensions and benefits, and kept alive... more
The history of war veterans movements and politics around the world is a growing and fertile historiographical field. War veterans have often formed political lobbies, conducted protest campaigns for pensions and benefits, and kept alive the memory of war, in very different countries of the world. A number of recent contributions by historians have focused on the organizations and activities of veterans and war invalids of the First World War. Comparative and transnational perspectives have been introduced to examine inter-war veteran politics. As for the world after 1945, historians have analysed the role of veterans in different nation-states such as the Soviet Union, the United States, Germany, Italy, and China. However, introducing an innovative global perspective on the history of war veterans after the Second World War can provide further insights into the topic, while contributing to filling important historiographical gaps in the field. This conference aims to bring together historians working on the history of war veterans of any armed conflict between the Second World War and 1989, with a view to advancing towards a global history of veterans' movements and politics in the twentieth century.
Research Interests: American History, European History, Military History, Social Movements, International Relations, and 30 moreGlobalization, Rehabilitation, Transnational and World History, International organizations, Military Veterans, Combat Veterans, War Studies, African History, Cold War, Transnational History, Algerian war, Second World War, Global History, Latin American History, Vietnam, United States History, War and society, Cold War history, Korean War, Cuban Revolution, Arab-Israeli conflict, Nuclear Disarmament, Anti-War, Decolonization, Partition of India, Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration, French colonial Algeria, Veterans, Indochina War, and War veterans
Research Interests: Military History, Military Science, Military Intelligence, Strategy (Military Science), Sociology of the Military, and 19 moreCold War and Culture, War Studies, Civil War, Second World War, American Civil War, First World War, Roman military history, Military and Politics, Spanish Civil War, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, War on Terror, Military, Historia, Rules of War, GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA, Guerra, Historia Militar, Segunda República y Guerra Civil Española, and Guerra Civil
DOSSIER. Asociacionismo militar y política La historia militar no debe ceñirse exclusivamente al estudio de las tropas, las estrategias o las batallas, sino que además debe centrarse de forma prioritaria en las relaciones de lo militar... more
DOSSIER. Asociacionismo militar y política
La historia militar no debe ceñirse exclusivamente al estudio de las tropas, las estrategias o las batallas, sino que además debe centrarse de forma prioritaria en las relaciones de lo militar con la política, la sociedad y la cultura. En este sentido, el asociacionismo nos permite abordar todas estas cuestiones, ya que éste fue y sigue siendo un factor de socialización fundamental dentro del ejército, pero también más allá de éste, cuando el individuo abandonaba el mundo castrense. Este dossier se concibe como un punto de partida para el estudio de dicho asociacionismo militar y, en definitiva, del papel político-social que han tenido los militares a lo largo de la contemporaneidad.
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http://ruhm.es/index.php/RUHM/issue/view/10
La historia militar no debe ceñirse exclusivamente al estudio de las tropas, las estrategias o las batallas, sino que además debe centrarse de forma prioritaria en las relaciones de lo militar con la política, la sociedad y la cultura. En este sentido, el asociacionismo nos permite abordar todas estas cuestiones, ya que éste fue y sigue siendo un factor de socialización fundamental dentro del ejército, pero también más allá de éste, cuando el individuo abandonaba el mundo castrense. Este dossier se concibe como un punto de partida para el estudio de dicho asociacionismo militar y, en definitiva, del papel político-social que han tenido los militares a lo largo de la contemporaneidad.
ESTUDIOS
TRADUCCIONES
RESEÑAS
http://ruhm.es/index.php/RUHM/issue/view/10
Research Interests: History, Military History, Modern History, Political Sociology, Medieval History, and 27 moreEarly Modern History, Sociology of the Military, Medieval Studies, Military Veterans, Combat Veterans, War Studies, Politics, Civil War, Early Medieval History, Second World War, First World War, World War II, Modernism, Military and Politics, Spanish Civil War, Civil-military relations, War on Terror, Military, Acción Colectiva, Rules of War, GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA, Veterans, Guerra de la Independencia Española, Historia Contemporánea de España, Asociacionismo, Historia Moderna De España, and Acción Política
Estimados/as amigos/as, tenemos el placer de presentaros el último número de la revista que cuenta con un excelente dossier coordinado por Ángel Alcalde (EUI), titulado "Asociacionismo militar y política" y en el que participan... more
Estimados/as amigos/as, tenemos el placer de presentaros el último número de la revista que cuenta con un excelente dossier coordinado por Ángel Alcalde (EUI), titulado "Asociacionismo militar y política" y en el que participan investigadores de la talla de Alejandro Rabinovich (CONICET), Bárbara Raiter (UBA-Gehigue), Álvaro La Parra (Weber State University), Stephanie Wright (University of Sheffield) y Karsten Wilke (Universität Bielefeld). Un dossier que muestra que la historia militar es más que el estudio de las tropas y de las estrategias de batalla, ya que también sirve para abordar nuestro pasado de una forma más compleja, intentando estudiar la sociabilidad dentro de una institución como es el ejército, el asociacionismo y la acción sociopolítica. En definitiva, una disciplina más rica de lo que muchos compañeros/as creen.
Asimismo, seguimos publicando la tradicional sección de estudios, con seis espléndidos estudios escritos por Roberto Muñoz Bolaños (URJI), Alberto Ausín Ciruelos (Universidad de Burgos), Leonardo Canciani (CESAL), Xavier Torrebadella-Flix (UAB), Emiliano Casas (CONICET) y John E. Fahey (Purdue University) que siguen la línea editorial que pretendemos promover desde la revista. Además, son artículos que van desde la edad media a la contemporaneidad.
Tenemos el orgullo de publicar una traducción de un capítulo escrito por el historiador S. Hodkinson titulado "¿Era la Espata clásica una sociedad militar?, sin duda un título sugerente y que se enmarca dentro de los estudios sociales y culturales que pretendemos promover. Finalmente contamos con una completa sección de reseñas.
La foto de portada creemos que representa fielmente el contenido del dossier, pues se trata de un acto de homenaje a las "Madres de los Caídos" del bando sublevado, en el que se le entregó un ramo de flores a la madre de más edad que perdió un hijo en la guerra. La foto está tomada en el año 1965 en un acto celebrado en Vilanova de Lourenzá (Lugo, Galicia, España. El archivo nos obligó a poner el nombre castellanizado), por lo que se puede comprobar como años después la guerra sigue estando presente en la política, en la sociedad y en la memoria de la gente. Esperemos que disfrutéis con su lectura como nosotros/as hicimos realizando este número, y solo nos queda dar las gracias al coordinador (Ángel) y a todos los autores/as por animarse a publicar con nosotros/as. Muchas gracias. Agradecemos toda la difusión posible.
Asimismo, seguimos publicando la tradicional sección de estudios, con seis espléndidos estudios escritos por Roberto Muñoz Bolaños (URJI), Alberto Ausín Ciruelos (Universidad de Burgos), Leonardo Canciani (CESAL), Xavier Torrebadella-Flix (UAB), Emiliano Casas (CONICET) y John E. Fahey (Purdue University) que siguen la línea editorial que pretendemos promover desde la revista. Además, son artículos que van desde la edad media a la contemporaneidad.
Tenemos el orgullo de publicar una traducción de un capítulo escrito por el historiador S. Hodkinson titulado "¿Era la Espata clásica una sociedad militar?, sin duda un título sugerente y que se enmarca dentro de los estudios sociales y culturales que pretendemos promover. Finalmente contamos con una completa sección de reseñas.
La foto de portada creemos que representa fielmente el contenido del dossier, pues se trata de un acto de homenaje a las "Madres de los Caídos" del bando sublevado, en el que se le entregó un ramo de flores a la madre de más edad que perdió un hijo en la guerra. La foto está tomada en el año 1965 en un acto celebrado en Vilanova de Lourenzá (Lugo, Galicia, España. El archivo nos obligó a poner el nombre castellanizado), por lo que se puede comprobar como años después la guerra sigue estando presente en la política, en la sociedad y en la memoria de la gente. Esperemos que disfrutéis con su lectura como nosotros/as hicimos realizando este número, y solo nos queda dar las gracias al coordinador (Ángel) y a todos los autores/as por animarse a publicar con nosotros/as. Muchas gracias. Agradecemos toda la difusión posible.
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Francisco Cobo, Claudio Hernández y Miguel Ángel del Arco (eds.), Granada, Comares, 2016.