UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Department of History Semester I, 1989-1990 History 340 Mr. Payne REVOLUTION AND FASCISM IN SPAIN, ITALY AND PORTUGAL Description: This course examines the dramatic political and social conflicts of Spain, Italy and Portugal in modern times. No other countries presented such a broad and full gamut of radical ideologies, movements and to some extent institutional changes since the nineteenth century. Main emphases will be on the breakthrough of modern liberalism, the rise of the revolutionary left, the onset of fascism, the Spanish Civil War, the Portuguese Revolution and the stabilization of the current democratic regimes. Study will be to some extent topical and comparative analyzing all three countries in terms of similar conflicts, movements and phases of development. Lectures: There will be three lectures each week, punctuated and/or followed by questions or brief discussion. Exams and Assignments: There will be three hours of written exams, a one-hour six weeks exam and a two-hour final. In addition, all students must submit a five-page essay on additional reading from the recommended list (or some other book approved by the instructor) no later than November 13. Students registered for four credits must also prepare a research paper or a longer essay on additional reading (15 pages or more in length), the topic of which must be defined by individual consultation with the instructor no later than September 30. This will be due November 27. Graduate students registered for credit should consult with the instructor. Grading: For 3-credit students, the first exam will amount to about 25% of the final grade, the paper about 20% and the final exam about 50-55%. For 4-credit students, the first exam will amount to about 20% of the final grade, the final about 45%, the short essay 10% and the research paper 25%. Required Textbooks: Raymond Carr, Spain 1808-1975 (Oxford) 2nd ed., paperback Martin Modern Italy 1871-1982 (Longman) paperback A.H. de Oliveira Marques, History of Portugal (Columbia) 2nd ed., paperback
History 340 2 Mr. Payne SCHEDULE OF TOPICS September Readings 6 8 11 13 15 18 20 22 25 27 29 Introduction The Liberal Revolution in Spain and Portugal The Carlist Counterrevolution Two-Party Liberalism & Democratic Revolution The Risorgimento & Unification of Italy Oligarchic Liberalism & Transformismo Stagnation of Liberalism & the Colonial Problem l)spain and Portugal 2)Italy Open Origins of the Revolutionary Left Giolittismo & Liberal Democracy Carr, 1-78; Marques, I, 379-430 Carr, 79-184; Marques, II, 1-58 Carr, 184-95; Marques, II, 58-64 Carr, 196-346; Marques, II, 64-72 1-43 44-68 Carr, 347-429; Marques, II, 72-118 69-73, 81-108 no assignment Carr, 430-63; 73-81, 108-12 112-50, 161-78 October 2 4 6 9 11 13 16 18 20 23 25 27 30 New Challenges in Italy Reformism in Spain, 1899-1917 The Portuguese Republic, 1910-1917 Open SIX WEEKS EXAM Italian Nationalism & The Great War The Postwar Crises: 1) Socialist Maximalism & the Rise of Fascism in Mussolini's Triumph Institutionalization of the Fascist Regime Carr, 463-97 Marques, II, 119-68 no assignment Italy 150-60, 180-96 197-213 213-24 224-41 The Postwar Crises: 2) Spain, 1917-23 Carr, 497-563 The Postwar Crises: 3) Portugal, Marques, II, 168-75 1917-1926 Salazar's "New State Democratic Breakthrough and Political Breakdown: A Comparative Perspective Marques, II, 177-217, 255-57 Carr, 564-91
History 340 3 Mr. Payne November 1 Fascist Italy at Mid-Passage 242-79 3 The Second Spanish Republic: Carr, 591-628 Opening to the Left, 1930-1933 6 The Regionalist Problem in Spain Carr, 538-58 8 The Failure to Stabilize the Carr, 628-40 Republic, 1933-1936 10 From Popular Front to Civil War Carr, 640-56 13 The Spanish Revolution Carr, 656-72 15 Franco's Victory Carr, 673-94 17 Open no assignment 20 Italian Expansion & the 280-85 Nazification of Fascism 22 Italy in the Second World War 285-310 27 Franco and Hitler Carr, 695-723 29 Italy: Democratization and Prosperity 310-73 December 1 Spain's Revolution of Modernization, 1950-1975 4 Downfall of the Portuguese Estado Novo 6 The Portuguese Revolution 8 Open 11 The Democratization of Spain 13 Italy: Democracy & Terrorism 15 Southwest Europe in the 80s Carr, 724-70 217-24, 259-68 374-96 RECOMMENDED READING Bolloten, Burnett Boyd, Carolyn Carr, Raymond Carr, R. & Juan P. Fusi Robert P. Cloverdale, John F. Fusi, Juan P. Gilmour, David Harrison, Joseph Hooper, John Jackson, Gabriel Lieberman, Sima The Spanish Revolution Pretorian Politics in Liberal Spain The Republic and the Civil War in Spain The Spanish Tragedy Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy The Basque Insurgents The Intervention in the Spanish Civil War The Basque Phase of Spain's first Carlist War The Political Transformation of Spain after Franco Franco The Transformation of Spain An Economic History of Modern Spain The Spaniards The Spanish Republic and Civil War The Contemporary Spanish Economy
History 340 4 Mr. Payne Spain cont'd Malefakis, Edward Meaker, Gerald Payne, S.G. Preston, Paul Roginson, R.A.H. Thomas, Hugh Trythall, J.W.D. Ullman, J.C. Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain The Revolutionary Left in Spain, 1914-1923 Politics and the Military in Modern Spain Spanish Catholicism The Spanish Revolution Basque Nationalism The Franco Regime The Triumph of Democracy in Spain The Origins of Franco's Spain The Spanish Civil War El Caudillo The Tragic Week Allum, P.A. Bosworth, R.J.B. Cammett, J.M. M.N. Clough, Shepard B. De Felice, Renzo De Grand, A.H. Deakin, F.W. Gregor, A. James Knox, Macgregor Kogan, Norman Ledeen, Michael Lyttelton, Adrian Mammarella, G. Neufeld, M.F. Roberts, David Salomone, A.E. Seton-Watson, Christopher Smith, Denis Mack Spotts, Frederic & Th. Wieser Thayer, John Whittam, J. Italy -- Republic without Government Italy, the Least of the Great Powers Antonio Gramsci and the Origins of Italian Communism Antonio Gramsci and the Revolution that Failed Economic History of Modern Italy Interpretations of Fascism Italian Fascism The Italian Nationalist Association The Brutal Friendship The Ideology of Fascism The Interpretations of Fascism Italian Fascism and Development Dictatorship The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics Young Mussolini Mussolini Unleashed A Political History of Post-war Italy A Postwar History of Italy Universal Fascism The Seizure Power Italy after Fascism Italy: School for Awakening Countries The Syndical Tradition and Italian Fascism Italy in the Giolittian Era Italy from Liberalism to Fascism The Making of Italy, 1796-1870 Mussolini's Roman Empire Italy: A Difficult Democracy Italy and the Great War The Politics of the Italian Army
History 340 5 Mr. Payne Portugal Clarence-Smith, Gervase Gallagher, Tom Graham, L. & H. Makler Harvey, Robert Kay, Hugh Porch, Douglas Robinson, Richard A.R. Wheeler, Douglas 'Wiarda, Howard The Third Portuguese Empire Portugal: A Twentieth-Century Interpretation Contemporary Portugal Portugal: Birth of a Democracy Salazar and Modern Portugal The Portuguese Armed Forces and the Revolution Contemporary Portugal Republican Portugal Corporatism and Development