El vector internacional aumenta en relevancia

Abstract

This article focuses on recent bibliography concerning several international aspects of the Spanish Civil War.It attempts to identify the orientations favoured by historians today when dealing with a complex and frequently underrated subject. However, there is yet much work to be done in order to contextualize the Spanish conflict using Spanish primary material and to situate it, according to the perceptions then prevalent, within a world doomed to engage in a general war. The so-called “Spanish question», which attracted considerable attention in the late thirties, cannot be separated from the dramatic European panorama that led to the Second World War. The fact that it is Spanish historians (and not merely hispanists, as in the past) who are the main driving force in trying to reconstruct that past on the basis of primary sources, is a positive sign for historiography (both nationally and internationally), as well as for the country itself. Too many works have been written with little reference to Spanish sources. This now seems to be changing.