Dr. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó BA, PhD (London)

Contact Details

• Telephone: (0117) 9287496
• Fax: (0117) 331 8010
• Email: f.romerosalvado@bris.ac.uk
• Room: 1.45 15 Woodland Road
• Research Publications

Teaching

Modern Spanish history and politics; the origins, course and legacy of the Spanish Civil War; Left-wing social and political mobilization; state identity and peripheral nationalisms.

Research

Dr. Romero Salvadó’s main focus of research is the analysis of the social and political origins of the Spanish Civil War; the transition from elite to mass politics, the post First World War crisis of the Liberal Monarchy, popular protest, labour movement and praetorian intervention in political society.

Dr. Romero Salvadó is a senior lecturer and was appointed in September 2006.

Dr. Romero Salvadó would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students interested in pursuing an MPhil and/or PhD in any area of social and political history of modern Spain from the late nineteenth century until the 1930s, and in particular areas such as the organised labour movement, liberal or authoritarian politics, Catalan Nationalism, or any aspects of the Spanish Civil War.

Selected list of recent and forthcoming publications:

Published Books:

• Twentieth Century Spain: Politics and Society, 1898–1998, (London: Macmillan, 1999).
• Spain, 1914–1918: Between War and Revolution (London: Routledge, 1999).
• España entre la Guerra y la Revolución, 1914-1918 (Barcelona: Crítica, 2002).
• The Spanish Civil War: Origins, Course and Outcomes (London: Palgrave, 2005).
• The Foundations of Civil War. Revolution, Social Conflict and Reaction in Spain, 1916–1923 (London: Routledge, 2008).
• Co-edited with A. Smith, The Agony of Spanish Liberalism: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 1913-1923 (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010).
• La larga guerra civil española del Siglo XX (Granada: Comares, 2011, forthcoming).
• Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War (Scarecrow Press, 2011, forthcoming).

Published Chapters in Edited Collections:

• ‘The Failure of the Liberal Nation-State, 1909–1923’, in A. Smith and C. Molinero (eds), Nationalism and the Nation in the Iberian Peninsula (Oxford: Berg, 1996).
• ‘Spain and the First World War: Neutrality and Crisis’, in P. Preston and S. Balfour (eds), Spain and the Great Powers (London: Routledge, 1999).
• ‘Reds versus Whites in Russia and Spain, 1917–1939’, in J. Black (ed.), European Warfare, 1815–2000 (London: Palgrave, 2002).
• ‘La Gran Ilusión. En torno al mito y a la paradoja de la revolución bolchevique en Europa’, in C. Navajas & Diego Iturriaga, Crisis, Dictaduras, Democracia. I Congreso Internacional de Historia de Nuestro Tiempo (Logroño: Universidad de la Rioja, 2008).
• ‘Killing a Dream: the Spanish Labyrinth’, J. Jump (ed.), Looking Back at the Spanish Civil War (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2010).
• With A. Smith, ‘The Agony of Spanish Liberalism and the Origins of Dictatorship: A European Framework’, in F. J. Romero Salvadó & A. Smith, The Agony of Spanish Liberalism: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 1913-1923 (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010).
• ‘Spain’s Revolutionary Crisis of 1917: A Reckless Gamble’, in F. J. Romero Salvadó & A. Smith, The Agony of Spanish Liberalism: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 1913-1923 (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010).
• ‘Si vis Pacem Para Bellum: The Catalan Employers’ Dirty War, 1919-1923’, in F. J. Romero Salvadó & A. Smith, The Agony of Spanish Liberalism: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 1913-1923 (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010).
• ‘Antonio Maura: El Gran Incomprendido’ in A. Quiroga & M. A del Arco Blanco, Derechistas (Granada: Comares, 2010).

Published Articles:

• ‘The Views of an Anarcho-Syndicalist on Soviet Russia: The Defeat of the Third International in Spain' (including translation into English of Angel Pestaña’s Informe de mi estancia en la Unión Soviética), Revolutionary Russia Vol. 8, No. 1 (June 1995).
• ‘The Structural Crisis of the Spanish Liberal Monarchy', European History Quarterly Vol. 25, No. 4, (October 1995).
• ‘The Organized Labour Movement in Spain: The Long Road to its Baptism of Fire, 1868–1917’, Tesserae (Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies) Vol. 2, No. 1 (Summer 1996).
• ‘Social Conflict and Political Polarization in Spain The Origins of the Spanish Civil War', History Teaching Review Year Book Vol. 14 (2000).
• ‘Angel Pestaña y el fracaso de la Comintern en España’, Cuadernos Republicanos Vol. 42 (2000).
• ‘Fatal Neutrality: Pragmatism or Capitulation? Spain's Foreign Policy during the Great War, European History Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2003).
• ‘The Great War and the Crisis of Liberalism in Spain, 1916-1917’, The Historical Journal, 46, No. 4 (2003).
• ‘The Comintern Fiasco in Spain: The Borodin Mission and the Birth of the Spanish Communist Party’, Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 21 No. 2 (December 2008).
• ‘Crisi, Agonia i fi de la monarquia liberal (1914-1923)’, Segle XX, Revista Catalana d’história, Vol. 1, No. 1 (December 2008).

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