Table of Contents

Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Chronological table; Political divisions; Part I. The Ancien Regime 1874–1931: 1. The Restoration, 1884–98; 2. The parliamentary regime and the Catalan question, 1898–1909; 3. The Liberals and the Church; 4. The army and the Syndicalist struggle in Barcelona 1916–23; 5. The dictatorship; Part II. The Condition of the Working Classes: 6. The Agrarian question; 7. The Anarchists; 8. The Anarcho-syndicalists; 9. The Carlists; 10. The Socialists; Part III. The Republic: 11. The Constituent Cortes; 12. The Bienio Negro; 13. The Popular Front; 14. Epilogue-the Civil War; Three sketch maps; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth, first published in 1990, has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War.

Reviews

' … shows the expert, subtle-minded and sometimes cynically truthful, in his quest of what really has created modern Spain … careful, sympathetic and judicial'. Cyril Connolly The Observer