Making Spaniards: Primo de Rivera and the Nationalization of the Masses, 1923-30

by Alejandro Quiroga Fernández de Soto

The regime of Primo de Rivera in Spain was one of the major dictatorships of the interwar period. Making Spaniards examines how the military regime created nationalist doctrine, rituals and symbols and how these were transmitted throughout Spanish society in an attempt to 'make' new authoritarian Spaniards and halt democratic reform.

245 pages, Hardcover

First published July 12, 2007

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

First-rate, hard core, monographic history. Very well done portrait of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, 1923-1930, and its attempts to establish totalitarian, mass-nationalization in Spain. Primo was unsuccessful, but his ideas weren't as Francisco Franco used them to rule Spain from 1936-1975.