Class, culture and conflict in Barcelona 1898-1937 / / Chris Ealham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783651303321
• Autore: Ealham Chris.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-134-42339-X; 1-134-42340-3; 1-280-29178-8; 9786610291786; 0-203-49355-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Collana: Routledge/Cañada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain
• Disciplina: 946/.72074
• Soggetti: Social movements - Spain - Barcelona - History; Social conflict - Spain - Barcelona - History; Anarchism - Spain - Barcelona - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-252) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Conclusion4 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 expropriators7 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937.