Böcker av Martin Blinkhorn

In this text, thirteen leading authorities on the European right examine the complex relationship between the 'radical' and the 'conservative' in twentieth-century Europe, exploring the theme across a broad range of European countries.

This is a study in English of the Carlist Movement, the extreme right-wing party in Spain, during the climactic decade of the 1930s. Carlism represents the oldest existing movement of the traditionalist right in Europe. In 1931 Carlists had already been in conflict with Spanish liberalism and leftism for over a century, seeking to reverse the trends of the nineteenth century and restore a religiously inspired corporative monarchy and harmonious society. During the 1930s they attacked and plotted the overthrow of the democratic Second Republic, participated in the rising of 1936 and then played a major political and military role within Nationalist Spain. Dr Blinkhorn discusses Carlism's internal politics, power struggles and sources of support; its ideology; its relations with other elements in the Spanish right, principally Falangism and Catholic conservatism; its attitude towards the Republic, liberalism and the left; its view of contemporary events elsewhere in Europe; its stress on paramilitarism and conspiracy against the Republican regime; and its wartime role.

This study places interwar European in its historical context and analyses its relationship with other right-wing authoritarian movements and regimes. It explores Fascism not only in germany and Italy, but across the entire Europen continent.

An introduction to events in Spain in the 1930s which led to the emergence of a democracy.