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[email protected] SPAIN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: NEUTRALITY AND CRISIS Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London By Francisco J. Romero Salvadó Queen Mary and Westfield College 20 June 1994 (LN N) Uy Abstract of thesis The subject of this thesis is a study of Spain during the First World War. The Spanish case is analyzed as the regional version of the general crisis which engulfed the rest of Europe during these years. This crisis was produced by the ideological militancy and social struggle caused by four years of devastating international conflict. It heralded the arrival of mass politics which put an end to a previous era marked by hierarchical and clientelist politics. This thesis examines how the maintenance of strict neutrality did not save the existing regime in Spain from the impact of the conflict raging in Europe. Spain did not enter the war but the war entered the country and, ironically, a conflict in which Spain did not take part was to alter its contemporary history.