Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937.

By: Ealham, ChrisMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain SerPublisher: Florence : Routledge, 2004Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203493557Subject(s): Anarchism -- Spain -- Barcelona -- History | Social conflict -- Spain -- Barcelona -- History | Social movements -- Spain -- Barcelona -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937DDC classification: 946/.72074 LOC classification: HN590.B3 -- E23 2005ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona 1898-1937 -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Important abbreviations and acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 The making of a divided city -- 1.1 The limits of the bourgeois urban utopia -- 1.2 Bourgeois dystopia and moral panics -- 1.3 Spatial militarism and policing before the Second Republic -- 2 Mapping the working-class city -- 2.1 Proletarian urbanism -- 2.2 The anarchist-inspired workers' public sphere -- 3 The birth of the republican city -- 3.1 The 'republic of order' -- 3.2 Policing the 'republic of order' -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 4 The proletarian city and the Second Republic -- 4.1 The reconstruction of the proletarian city -- 4.2 The divisions in the CNT -- 4.3 The 'hot summer' of 1931 -- 4.4 'Overrun by the masses': the radicalisation of the CNT -- 5 The struggle to survive: unemployed self-help and direct action during the Republic -- 5.1 Unemployed street politics -- 5.2 Repressing the 'detritus of the city' -- 5.3 Resisting the 'dictatorship in Barcelona' -- 5.4 Street politics and the radicalisation of the CNT -- 6 Militarised anarchism, 1932-36 -- 6.1 The cycle of insurrections -- 6.2 Militarised syndicalism -- 6.3 Funding the movement - the expropriators -- 7 Cultural battles: class and criminality -- 7.1 'Criminal capitalism' -- 7.2 The 'moral economy' of the Barcelona proletariat -- 7.3 'Revolutionary constructivism' - the end of the expropriations -- 7.4 The discreet charm of the republicans -- 8 An 'apolitical' revolution: anarchism, revolution and civil war -- 8.1 Urban revolution from below -- 8.2 The end of the revolution -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. Focusing upon the sources of anarchist power in the city and the role of the organised anarchist movement during the Second Republic the volume concludes with an analysis of the decline of the power of the anarchist movement during the civil war in its identification of the local conditions that made Barcelona into the capital of European anarchism.
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Cover -- Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona 1898-1937 -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Important abbreviations and acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 The making of a divided city -- 1.1 The limits of the bourgeois urban utopia -- 1.2 Bourgeois dystopia and moral panics -- 1.3 Spatial militarism and policing before the Second Republic -- 2 Mapping the working-class city -- 2.1 Proletarian urbanism -- 2.2 The anarchist-inspired workers' public sphere -- 3 The birth of the republican city -- 3.1 The 'republic of order' -- 3.2 Policing the 'republic of order' -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 4 The proletarian city and the Second Republic -- 4.1 The reconstruction of the proletarian city -- 4.2 The divisions in the CNT -- 4.3 The 'hot summer' of 1931 -- 4.4 'Overrun by the masses': the radicalisation of the CNT -- 5 The struggle to survive: unemployed self-help and direct action during the Republic -- 5.1 Unemployed street politics -- 5.2 Repressing the 'detritus of the city' -- 5.3 Resisting the 'dictatorship in Barcelona' -- 5.4 Street politics and the radicalisation of the CNT -- 6 Militarised anarchism, 1932-36 -- 6.1 The cycle of insurrections -- 6.2 Militarised syndicalism -- 6.3 Funding the movement - the expropriators -- 7 Cultural battles: class and criminality -- 7.1 'Criminal capitalism' -- 7.2 The 'moral economy' of the Barcelona proletariat -- 7.3 'Revolutionary constructivism' - the end of the expropriations -- 7.4 The discreet charm of the republicans -- 8 An 'apolitical' revolution: anarchism, revolution and civil war -- 8.1 Urban revolution from below -- 8.2 The end of the revolution -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. Focusing upon the sources of anarchist power in the city and the role of the organised anarchist movement during the Second Republic the volume concludes with an analysis of the decline of the power of the anarchist movement during the civil war in its identification of the local conditions that made Barcelona into the capital of European anarchism.

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