Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War: Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
What do you do when a beloved foreign country plunges into civil war? And how do you square your political views on that war with the demands of scholarly objectivity? This book assesses the long-term impact of the Spanish Civil War on Hispanic Studies as an academic field in the United States and Great Britain. Combining institutional history with biography, the book gives a compelling account of the dilemmas that the war posed for four Hispanists who turned their love of Spain into their life’s work: Gerald Brenan, Allison Peers, Paul Rogers, and Herbert Southworth.
Reviews:
Antonio López Gómez-Quiñones, Hispania 92.3 (2009): 498-500.
Juan Herrero-Senés, Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies 8-9 (2010-2011): 389-391.
Ana del Sarto, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 44.3 (2010): 697-703.
Gabriel Jackson, Revista de Libros 158 (2010): 18-19.
Cristina Martínez-Carazo, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 13 (2009): 213-17.
Mario Martín Gijón, Romanische Forschungen 121.4 (2009): 532-33.
Noël Valis, The Volunteer 25.4 (2008): 18, 20.