Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain: Origins of the Civil War

Large 8vo. xx, 469 pp, tables, maps, regional divisions, abbreviations, introduction, Part I. Land Tenure and Rural Social Structure: 1. Land Tenure in Twentieth-Century Spain; 2. The Geographical and Historical Setting of the Latifundios; 3. The Social Structure of Southern Spain: the Rural Oligarchy; 4. The Social Structure of Southern Spain: The Rural Proletariat. Part II. Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution: 5. The Agrarian Problem Prior to the Republic; 6. The First Months of the Republic; 7. The Azana Government in Search of an Agrarian Reform Law; 8. The Agrarian Reform Law of September 1932; 9. A Law in Search of a Government; 10. The Fall of Azana; 11. Anarchosyndicalism and Spontaneous Peasant Protest; 12. The Radicalization of the Socialists; 13. The Failure of the Center-Right; 14.The Destruction of the "Bourgeois Republic; 15. Could the Disaster Have Been Avoided; Appendixes: A. Sources of Information on Modern Spanish Land Tenure; B. Methods of Estimating Data in Statistical Tables; C. Additional Statistical Data on Spanish Land Tenure; D. Methodology Used to Establish Family Relationships and Absenteeism among Large Owners; E. Pre-Republican Agrarian Reform Proposals; glossary of Spanish words, selected bibliography, index. First Edition, 1970. Inscribed By The Author on ffep. Green cloth with yelllow lettering to spine. "This book adds a chapter to the growing literature on the problems of agrarian reform. It confirms the acuteness of the dilemma that faces all reformers -- that reforms may open a Pandora's box that will bring ruin to a system that introduces them. Consequently this study is concerned with the relationship between evolutionary and revolutionary action, as well as between reform and reaction." from the jacket flap.