Playing Ludomotor Activities in Lleida During the Spanish Civil War: An Ethnomotor Approach

Through the Lens of Propaganda: The Spanish Campesina During the Spanish Civil War

Health and the war. Changing schemes and health conditions during the Spanish civil war.

This paper focuses on the health reforms during the republican Spain (1931-1939) and the crisis derived from the three-year of civil war. It considers how the war affected the health system and the impairment of health conditions of the population during the late 1930s, considering the changing conditions caused by the conflict. Some of the specific topics analysed are the changing healthcare s...

Violence and Displacement in Civil War. Evidence from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

This paper explores the relationship between violence and displacement during civil war focusing on two different forms of population movements (i.e. incoming and outgoing), and two different forms of violence (i.e. direct and indirect). The paper explores the relationship between displacement and violence at the local level in the context of a civil war fought conventionally using a novel data...

Using a New Medium for Propaganda: the Role of Transborder Broadcasts during the Spanish Civil War

After the establishment of shortwave broadcasts in foreign languages by both authoritarian and democratic regimes, the Spanish Civil War, which pitted the Republicans in power against the Nationalists led by Franco, became ‘the first great political event in which radio played a major part’ (Whitton and Herz, 1942: 24). In fact, when the Nationalist uprising took place in Morocco in July 1936, ...

War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War

War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated southeastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long run i...