Professor P Preston, J314

For MA/MSc History of International Relations, MSc Theory and History of International Relations, MSc History of Nationalism, LSE-Columbia University Double Degree in International and World History and LSE-PKU Double Degree in MSc International Affairs.

A detailed analysis of the relationship between political and social tensions within Spain and the international context of the pre-1939 period, the Second World War and the Cold War. The course consists of three chronologically linked sections. It will examine the international dimension of the Spanish Civil War and the interplay between domestic and international factors in determining its outcome. It will then analyze the causes and consequences, international and domestic, of Spanish neutrality in the Second World War. Finally, it will examine the process of transition from international ostracism of the Franco dictatorship, the United condemnations of 1945 and 1946, through to international acceptance in the form of the Spanish-U.S. Pact of Madrid signed in 1953.

There are 20 hours of lectures (shared with HY209) and 20 hours of classes (HY412) given by Professor P Preston.

A very substantial reading list is issued at the beginning of MT. The following titles are strongly recommended as preliminary reading: S Balfour & P Preston (Eds), Spain and the Great Powers (Routledge, 1999); B Liedtke, Embracing A Dictatorship: US Relations with Spain, 1945-53 (Macmillan, 1998); C Leitz & D J Dunthorn (Eds), Spain in an International Context, 1936-1959(Berghahn Books, New York, 1999; D Little, Malevolent Neutrality: The United States, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War (Cornell University Press, 1985); P Preston, A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War (Fontana Books, 1996); P Preston, Franco: A Biography (HarperCollins, 1993); R Rein, Spain and the Mediterranean since 1898 (Frank Cass, 1999); H Thomas, The Spanish Civil War (Penguin, 1977).

There will be a three-hour written examination in the ST in which the candidate will be required to answer three questions.