University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons CUREJ - College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal College of Arts and Sciences 5-7-2014 In Defense of Our Brothers’ Cause: Argentine Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Tomas E. Piedrahita University of Pennsylvania,
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[email protected]. In Defense of Our Brothers’ Cause: Argentine Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Abstract Long a country of two faces – European and Latin American – Argentina saw the woes of the Spanish Civil War as deeply reflective of their struggles and immensely predictive of their fate. Their preoccupation with the war’s outcome was at once an expression of the country's long-simmering identity crisis and an attempt to affirm its Hispanic otherness, particularly in the wake of the 1930 coup d’état. This article explores the subtleties of this identity crisis with an eye toward determining the motives underlying claims and references to Spain, an exploration which rests primarily on the nexus of social and cultural history and secondarily on their intersection with political history.