Making Spaniards: Primo de Rivera and the Nationalization of the Masses, 1923-30 - Hardcover

by A. Quiroga (Author)

The regime of Primo de Rivera in Spain was one of the major dictatorships of the interwar period. Making Spaniards examines how the military regime created nationalist doctrine, rituals and symbols and how these were transmitted throughout Spanish society in an attempt to 'make' new authoritarian Spaniards and halt democratic reform.

Author Biography

ALEJANDRO QUIROGA is Lecturer in Spanish History at the School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle, UK. He has previously taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, King's College London and Royal Holloway. He is the author of Los orígenes del Nacionalcatolicismo (2006) and, with Sebastian Balfour, The Reinvention of Spain. Nation, Identity and Nationalism since Democracy (2007).