List of contributors, List of abbreviations, Acknowledgements, Map of the regions and provinces of Spain, Introduction War of words: the Spanish Civil War and the historians, 1. The Republican 'take-over': prelude to inevitable catastrophe?, 2. The Church's crusade against the Republic, 3. War on two fronts: politics and society in Navarre 1931-6, 4. Regionalism and revolution in Catalonia, 5. The epic failure: the Asturian revolution of October 1934, 6. Economic crisis, social conflict and the Popular Front: Madrid 1931-6, 7. The agrarian war in the south, 8. The Basque question 1931-7, 9. Soldiers, politics and war, 10. The popular experience of war and revolution 1936-9, 11. Reflex reaction: Germany and the onset of the Spanish Civil War, 12. The financing of the Spanish Civil War, Index