In Defense of Our Brothers’ Cause: Argentine Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
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Spain
Spanish Civil War
Cultural History
Social History
Hispanic Studies
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Antonio Feros
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Antonio
Cultural History
European History
Latin American History
Political History
Social History
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Long a country of two faces – European and Latin American – Argentina saw the woes of the Spanish Civil War as deeply reflective of their struggles and immensely predictive of their fate. Their preoccupation with the war’s outcome was at once an expression of the country's long-simmering identity crisis and an attempt to affirm its Hispanic otherness, particularly in the wake of the 1930 coup d’état. This article explores the subtleties of this identity crisis with an eye toward determining the motives underlying claims and references to Spain, an exploration which rests primarily on the nexus of social and cultural history and secondarily on their intersection with political history. Appealing to the writings of intellectuals, politicians, and clergy, as well as newspaper accounts of the time, this article outlines Argentine framing of the Spanish Civil War in an attempt to elucidate its cultural and political character.
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