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Record Nr.

UNINA9910978257403321

Autore

Quiroga Alejandro

Titolo

The People's Dictator : The Life of General Primo de Rivera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-04-032160-7

1-04-032122-4

1-03-269184-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (468 pages)

Collana

Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain Series

Disciplina

946/.07092

B

Soggetti

Prime ministers - Spain

Dictators - Spain

Spain Politics and government 1886-1931

Spain History 1868-1931

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Who and when -- Rebel without a cause (1870-1920) -- The forging of a conspirator (1920-1923) -- The military directory (1923-1925) -- The civil directory (1925-1930) -- Caudillo of the nation : propaganda, masculinity and the leadership cult -- The nationalisation of the masses -- Fall and death of a dictator -- What happened here? : History and memory of a dictator and his dictatorship.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first major biography of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain between 1923 and 1930, who profoundly transformed Spain and played a key role in the shaping of a counterrevolutionary Europe in the interwar era.