Sebastian Balfour (born in 1941)[1] is an English historian and Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Spanish Studies at the London School of Economics.

Sebastian Balfour
Sebastian Balfour in 2017
Born1941 (age 82–83)
Occupation(s)Historian and hispanist

Works

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Books
  • Castro. Profiles in power. London and New York: Longman. 1990.[n. 1]
  • La dictadura, los trabajadores y la ciudad. El movimiento obrero en el área metropolitana de Barcelona (1939-1988). Valencia: Edicions Alfons El Magnànim. 1994.
  • The End of the Spanish Empire 1898-1923. Clarendon Press. 1997.[4]
  • Deadly Embrace. Morocco and The Road to The Spanish Civil War. Oxford University Press. 2002.[n. 2]
Chapters in collective works
  • "Nuevas y viejas interpretaciones del 98 y de sus consecuencias en España". XIII Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana. VIII Congreso Internacional de Historia de América (AEA). Casa de Colón. 1998. pp. 35–42.
  • "El 98 y El Nacionalismo Español". Imágenes del 98 (in Spanish). Fundación BBV. 1999.
  • J. Álvarez-Junco, J. & Adrian Shubert, ed. (1999). "The Desarrollo years, 1955-1975". In A History of Spain since 1808. A. Macmillan. pp. 277–288.
  • Ismael Saz & Edward Acton, ed. (2001). "War, Nationalism and the Masses in Spain, 1898-1939". La transición a la política de masas : V Seminario Histórico Hispano-Británico. Universitat de València. pp. 75–92. ISBN 84-370-5148-7.
  • Angel Smith & Emma Dávila-Cox, ed. (1999). "The Impact of the War Within Spain: Continuity or Crisis?". The Crisis of 1898. Colonial Redistribution and Nationalist Mobilization. pp. 180–194.
Articles in academic journals

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  • Balfour, Sebastian; Quiroga, Alejandro (2007). España reinventada. Nación e identidad desde la transición. Barcelona: Península.

Editor

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  • Sebastian Balfour, ed. (2005). The Politics of Contemporary Spain. Routledge.
  • Sebastian Balfour & Paul Preston, ed. (1999). Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century. Routledge.[4][n. 3]
  • Sebastian Balfour; Laurie Howes; Michael de Larrabeiti; Anthony Weale, eds. (2008). Trinity Tales: Tales from Trinity College Dublin in Sixties. Lilliput Press.

Notes

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  1. ^ First edition in 1990.[2] Re-edited in 1995 and 2008[3]
  2. ^ Published by Peninsula in Spanish as Abrazo mortal. De la Guerra Colonial a La Guerra Civil. España y Marruecos (1909-1939)[5]
  3. ^ Also re-published as España y las grandes potencias y los efectos del Desastre de 1898. Preston, P. Critica. 2002. and España y las grandes potencias en el siglo XX. Critica. 2002.

References

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  1. ^ "Great Hispanists Series: Sebastian Balfour". EUNIC London.
  2. ^ "New Books Received". Journal of Latin American Studies. 23 (1). Cambridge University Press: 265–272. 1991. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00013705. JSTOR 157568.
  3. ^ Artaraz, Kepa (2009). "Sebastian Balfour, Castro: Profiles in Power". Journal of Latin American Studies. 41 (3). Cambridge University Press: 592–594. doi:10.1017/S0022216X09990289. S2CID 146210080.
  4. ^ a b Hugo, Markus M. (2001). "Reviewed Works: The End of the Spanish Empire 1898-1923. [El fin del Imperio Español (1898-1923)] by Sebastian Balfour; Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century by Sebastian Balfour, Paul Preston". Iberoamericana. 1 (1). Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert: 255–257. JSTOR 41673881.
  5. ^ Abrazo mortal. De la Guerra Colonial a La Guerra Civil. España y Marruecos (1909-1939) (in Spanish). Peninsula. 2002.
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