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The Spanish Civil War

Background	Bibliographies	Dictionaries	Films	Sources	Art, Literature, Cinema

 

Background information

 

• Brenan, Gerald.
  The Spanish labyrinth : an account of the social and political background of the Civil War.
  First paperback ed.
  New York : Cambridge University Press, 1960.
  xx, 384 p. : maps.
  Call Number DP233.B7 1960 PCL Stacks
• Preston, Paul, 1946-
  A concise history of the Spanish Civil War / Paul Preston.
  Rev. and updated version.
  London : Fontana, 1996.
  259 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
  Call Number DP269.P79 1996 PCL Stacks
• Thomas, Hugh, 1931-
  The Spanish Civil War.
  New York : Harper, 1961.
  720 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  Call Number DP269.T46 PCL Stacks

  Links:

  • La Guerra Civil Española (by Manuel Sanromà)
    Historical sketches, photographs of participants from alphabetical list, posters, access to posters by artist, discussion lists, etc.
  
  
  • The Spanish Revolution (1936)
    Eyewitness accounts, biographies, posters, articles.

Bibliographies

• Cierva, Ricardo de la, 1926-
  Bibliografía general sobre la Guerra de España (1936-1939) y sus antecedentes históricos.
  Madrid : Secretaría General Técnica del Ministerio de Información y Turismo, 1968.
  Call Number Z2700.B52 PCL Stacks
• García Durán, Juan.
  Bibliography of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 = Bibliografía de la Guerra Civil Española = Bibliogaphie de la Guerre civile espagnole.
  Montevideo : Editorial El Siglo Ilustrado, 1964. 559 p. ; 25 cm.
  Call Number 016.946086 G165B PCL Stacks
• La Guerra Civil, 1936-1939.
  Madrid : Centro de Información y Documentación Científica, 1996.
  2 v. (xii, 761 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
  (Bibliografías de historia de España) ; no. 7)
  Centro de Información y Documentación Científica (Spain)
  Call Number DP269.G83 1996 v.1-2 PCL Stacks

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Historical dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 / edited by James W. Cortada.
  Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1982.
  xxviii, 571 p. : maps ; 29 cm.
  Call Number DP269 H54 PCL Stacks and PCL Ref.

Sources and special collections

• España, su lucha y sus ideales.
  Buenos Aires : Editorial Acento, 1937.
  197 p. ; 19 cm.
  La incorporación de las masas populares a la historia / Federica Montseny -- La nueva justicia popular / Juan García Oliver -- Defensa de los conservadores / Angel Osorio y Gallardo -- Grandezas y miserias de la revolución española / F. Martí Ibáñez -- Los factores económicos de la revolución española / J.P. Fábregas -- El arte en la revolución / H. Noja Ruiz.
  Call Number 946.086 ES61 PCL Stacks
• García Durán, Juan.
  La guerra civil española : fuentes (archivos, bibliografía y filmografía) / Juan García Durán ; prólogo de Gabriel Jackson.
  Barcelona : Editorial Crítica : Grupo Editorial Grijalbo, c1985.
  Call Number DP269.97 G25 1985 PCL Stacks
• Life (Chicago, Ill.)
  [Chicago : Time Inc., 1936-
  73 v. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 36 cm.
  Call Number qAP2.L547 PCL Stacks
• Pamphlets on the Spanish civil war.
  [S.l. : Various publishers, 1936-1939]
  123 pamphlets in 5 v. ; 21-34 cm.
  Call Number FILM 17,195 REEL 1-2 Microforms PCL Level 1 USE IN LIBRARY ONLY
• The Spanish Civil War collection [microform].
  Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, 1987.
  57 microfilm reels : ill. ; 35 mm.
  Microfilm of approximately 2,500 pamphlets from the Herbert Rutledge Southworth collection, Mandeville Department of Special Collections, University Library. University of California, San Diego Library. Call Number FILM 23,961 REEL 1-57 Microforms PCL Level 1 USE IN LIBRARY ONLY

Links:

• Humanities Research Center's Spanish Civil War Collection
• Guía de Fuentes Documentales de Archivos
• Spanish Civil War Oral History Project (U. of Florida)

 

The War: Art, Literature, Cinema

Art

• La Guerra Civil Española : arte y violencia / Gareth Thomas ... [et al.] ; Derek Gagen, David George (editores)
  Murcia : Universidad de Murcia, 1990. 186 p. ; 20 cm. (Colección maior ; 20) Thomas, Gareth.
  Call Number DP269.8.L5G83 1990 PCL Stacks
• Images of the Spanish Civil War / introduction by Raymond Carr.
  London : Allen & Unwin, 1986. 192 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.), col. map ; 30 cm.
  Call Number DP269.15 I57 1986 PCL Stacks

Literature

A) Background information for literature

• Benson, Frederick R.
  Writers in arms : the literary impact of the Spanish Civil War / by Frederick R. Benson ; foreword by Salvador de Madariaga.
  New York : New York University Press, 1967.
  xxx, 345 p. : map (on lining papers) ; 24 cm.
  Call Number 809 N42 NO.1 PCL Stacks
Call Number 809.93 B443W Undergraduate Library
• Bertrand de Muñoz, Maryse.
  La Guerra Civil Española en la novela : bibliografía comentada.
  Madrid : J. Porrúa Turanzas, [1982] 3 v. (xvi, 762 p.) : ill. ; 22 cm.
  Call Number PN3448.W3B47 1982 v. 1-3 PCL Stacks
• Literatura sobre la Guerra Civil : poesía, narrativa, teatro, documentación : la expresión estética de una ideología antagonista.
  Barcelona : Anthropos, [1993]
  192 p. ; 27 cm.
  (Anthropos. Suplementos ; no. 39)
  Bertrand de Muñoz, Maryse.
  Call Number PN56.S67L57 1993 PCL Stacks
• Rewriting the good fight : critical essays on the literature of the Spanish Civil War / edited by Frieda S. Brown ... [et al.].
  East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, 1989.
  xiii, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
  Brown, Frieda S.
  Call Number PN56.S67R48 1989 PCL Stacks
• Thomas, Gareth.
  The novel of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975).
  Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  xi, 273 p., [19] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
  Call Number PQ6144.T47 1990 PCL Stacks

B) Texts

• Ayala, Francisco, 1906-
  La cabeza del cordero.
  [Buenos Aires : Fabril Editora, 1962?]
  187 p. ; 18 cm.
  El enfoque literario de la guerra civil española: Malraux y Ayala / por K. Ellis -- El mensaje -- El Tajo -- El regreso -- La cabeza del cordero -- La vida por la opinión.
  Call Number 863 AY14C 1962 PCL Stacks

_______. Los usurpadores : narraciones.
Buenos Aires : Editorial Sudamericana, [1949]
238 p. ; 17 cm.
San Juan de Dios -- El doliente -- La campana de Huesca -- Los impostores -- El hechizado -- El abrazo -- Diálogo de los muertos.
Call Number 863 AY14U PCL Stacks

• Barea, Arturo, 1897-1957.
  The forging of a rebel / translated by Ilsa Barea.
  New York : Viking Press, [1972]
  xiv, 751 p. ; 25 cm.
  The forge -- The track -- The clash.
  Call Number DP236.B3A213 1972B PCL Stacks
• Benet, Juan.
  Volverás a Región / Juan Benet.
  Barcelona : Ediciones Destino, 1981.
  315 p. ; 18 cm.
  (Colección Destinolibro ; v. 162)
  Call Number PQ6652.E5 V6 1981 PCL Stacks
• Foxá, Agustín de Foxá, conde de, 1903-1959.
  Madrid de corte a checa.
  4. ed.
  Barcelona : Planeta, 1993.
  414 p. ; 21 cm.
  Call Number PQ6611.O8M2 1993 on order for PCL Stacks
• García Serrano, Rafael.
  Eugenio o proclamación de la primavera : novela.
  1a. ed.
  Barcelona : Planeta, 1982.
  183 p. ; 20 cm.
  (Narrativa ; 56)
  Call Number PQ6613.A772E8 1982 PCL Stacks
• Gironella, José María.
  The cypresses believe in God / José María Gironella ; translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onís.
  New York : Knopf, 1956.
  ix, l0l0 p. ; 22 cm.
  Call Number PQ6613.I88C513 PCL Stacks in CDL

________. One million dead / translated from the Spanish by Joan MacLean.
[1st ed.]
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1963.
Call Number PQ6613.I88M513 PCL Stacks

________. Peace after war / translated from the Spanish by Joan MacLean.
1st. American ed.
New York : Knopf, 1969.
Call Number PQ6613.I88 PCL Stacks

• Romero, Emilio, 1917-
  La paz empieza nunca.
  Barcelona : Editorial Planeta, 1978.
  302 p. ; 18 cm.
  (Colección Popular Mayor)
  Colecciones populares Planeta
  Call Number PQ6633.O673P3 1978 PCL Stacks
• Sender, Ramón José, 1901-
  Counter-attack in Spain / translated from the Spanish by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell.
  Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.
  288 p. ; 21 cm.
  Call Number DP269.S42 1937a PCL Stacks

_________. Réquiem por un campesino espanol = Requiem for a Spanish peasant.
New York : Las Americas Pub. Co., [1960]
Call Number 863 SE55MO 1960 PCL Stacks

Cinema

Background information for cinema

• Catálogo general del cine de la guerra civil / edición a cargo de Alfonso del Amo García, con la colaboración de Ma. Luisa Ibáñez Ferradas.
  Madrid : Cátedra : Filmoteca Española, c1996.
  1019 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  (Serie mayor)
  Call Number DP269.8.M6C38 1996 PCL Stacks

Documentaries

• Art in the struggle for freedom [videorecording] / a film by Abe Osheroff.
  [United States] : A. Osheroff, 2000.
  1 videocassette (28 min.): sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.
  Call Number VIDCASS 8986 UGL Audio Visual Collection

• Dreams and nightmares [videorecording] / written and produced by Abe Osheroff ; directed and edited by Larry Klingman.
  [S.l. : s.n., 1974?]
  1 videocassette (54 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
  Call Number VIDCASS 8926 UGL Audio Visual Collection

• The good fight [videorecording] : the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War / produced and directed by Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills ; narrated by Studs Terkel.
  New York, N.Y. : Kino International Corp. [distributor], 1990.
  1 videocassette (98 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
  Call Number VIDCASS 8959 UGL Audio Visual Collection

• The Spanish civil war [videorecording].
  Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993.
  1 videocassette (27 min.) : b&W ; 1/2 in.
  (Films for the humanities & sciences ; FFH 2597)
  Call Number VIDCASS 7740 UGL AV Collection Reserves
• The Spanish civil war [videorecording] / Granada Television International.
  [S.l.] : MPI Home Video, 1987.
  2 videocassettes (312 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.
  Call Number VIDCASS 2721 PT.1-2UGL AV Collection Reserves

Feature films

• Saura, Carlos, 1932-
  Ay, Carmela! [videorecording].
  New York, NY : HBO Video, 1991.
  1 videocassette (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
  Call Number VIDCASS 4327 UGL AV Collection Reserves

_________. The garden of delights (Jardín de las delicias) [videorecording].
Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection : Tamarelle's International Films [distributor], 1988. 1 videocassette (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. In Spanish with English subtitles. Call Number VIDCASS 2977 UGL AV Collection Reserves

_________. The hunt (La Caza) [videorecording].
[S.l.] : Film Forum, 1989.
1 videocassette (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Call Number VIDCASS 5916 UGL AV Collection Reserves

Links:

• Exposición Virtual de Carteles Republicanos de la Guerra Civil Española
• The Visual Front A web exhibit from the UCSD Southworth Collection of Civil War posters