Origins of Franco's extermination: The rebel decision-making process in the summer of 1936
HISTAGRA Conference: Origins of Franco's extermination: The rebel decision-making process in the summer of 1936.
On Tuesday 6 June, Professor Ángel Alcalde will give a lecture entitled: Origins of Franco's extermination: The process of rebel decision-making in the summer of 1936. In it, he will present the advances of his most recent research on Franco's violence during the civil war.
His talk will focus on the hypothesis that the violence and combat experiences of the war were the fundamental ideological crucible of the Franco regime. The rebels were a group of reactionary and illiberal forces with little ideological or political coherence, but they emerged from the conflict not only victorious but ideologically united under the dictator's power. Key to understanding this transition are the different political cultures of the rebel army, how the war experiences of the combatants contributed to the transformation of the various rebel groups, and the role of foreign armed intervention.
Ángel Alcalde is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He holds a PhD in History and Civilisation from the European University Institute in Florence and was a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He was also a postdoctoral research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, as well as at the Centre for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University. His research focused on the social and cultural history of modern warfare, transnational history, and the history of fascism.
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Date: 06/06/2023
Title: Origins of Franco's Extermination: The Rebel Decision-Making Process in the Summer of '36
Speaker: Ángel Alcalde
Time: 12:00 h
Place: Aula 13. Faculty of Geography and History. USC
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