Arquitectura espanola del exilio

摘要

July 18th, 2016, was the eightieth anniversary of the failed coup d'etat that triggered the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The media, documentaries and academic debates are repeatedly reminding readers and viewers of the relevance of a rigorous and a-political analysis of this episode in recent Spanish history. Over the last three decades, a considerable number of academic books and articles have been published with different perspectives and interests that principally come from historical studies. All of them analyse the different reasons that led part of the Spanish army to revolt against the government of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939), as well as the political, social and cultural consequences that the war and the subsequent Franco Regime (1939-1975) had for Spanish society. As the Spanish historian Julian Casanova argues: 'the most relevant facts of the Spanish Civil War have already been researched and the most important questions are solved'.1 British and American Hispanists, such as Gabriel Jackson, Hugh Thomas or Stanley Payne, initiated the study of the Spanish conflict. Thanks to their research, the following generations of historians could develop a more documented literature with specific approaches-biographical studies, oral history, women's history and so on, such as in the writings of Antony Beevor, Paul Preston, Ronald Fraser and Helen Graham among English-speaking academia and the texts of Carlos Gil Andres, Enrique Moradiellos, Angel Vinas and Julian Casanova, from Spanish academia.