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- ↑ February 1, 1993, University of California San Diego, Notice of Department of History awards, honors, fellowships, special projects or publication of books, Retrieved October 15, 2017, "... Pamela B. Radcliff ... received a Fulbright Fellowship ..."
- 1 2 3 The Teaching Company, professor bio page, Pamela Radcliff, Professor Pamela Radcliff, Ph.D., Retrieved October 15, 2017, "....In 1997, she received the Eleanor Roosevelt College Excellence in Teaching Award ... in 1999, she was awarded ... the University of California Distinguished Teaching Award...."
- 1 2 Western Association of Women Historians, Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, 1998, Pamela Beth Radcliff, From Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City Gijón 1900-1937, (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
- 1 2 3 UC Merced, Spain in the Modern World, Retrieved October 13, 2017, "...Pamela Radcliff is chair of the History Department and a historian of Modern Spain ... research has focused on mass politics, gender, civil society and democratic transitions. ... Making Democratic Citizens explores the grass-roots contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain’s much celebrated democratic transition of the 1970s, ... She has been carrying out research in Madrid for thirty years ... Radcliff ... B.A. from Scripps College and M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University...."
- 1 2 3 4 Cruz 1998.
- ↑ Celia Amoros, August 15, 2009, El Pais, Feminismo y legitimidad democrática (Feminism and democratic legitimacy), Retrieved October 13, 2017, "... Radcliff considers that the style of feminist militancy clashed with that of the political culture of transition..."
- ↑ SD Metro Magazine, October 12, 2011, Daily Business Report — Oct. 12, 2011, Retrieved October 13, 2017, "...Pamela Radcliff, chair of the UCSD History Department and a historian of modern Spain...."
- 1 2 Project Muse, Montserrat Miller, Winter 2013, Journal of Social History, Volume 47, Number 2, Winter 2013, pp. 545-547, Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition by Pamela Beth Radcliff (review), Retrieved October 13, 2017
- 1 2 Seidman 1999, pp. 221–223.
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- 1 2 Messenger 2012, pp. 221–223.
- 1 2 González Madrid 2012, pp. 325–329.
- 1 2 Miller 2000, pp. 206–208.
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- 1 2 The Teaching Company, Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy, by Pamela Radcliff, U. California San Diego
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- ↑ González Madrid, Damián Alberto, Vínculos de Historia, number 1, 2012, Radcliff, Pamela B., Making democratic citizens in Spain. Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960-78, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, article, ISSN 2254-6901, pp. 325-329
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- ↑ E Magazine, June 13, 2017, Political Dissent in Democratic Athens- Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule, "...Radcliff ... presentation of modern Spanish history incorporates the latest thinking on key issues of modernity, social movements, nationalism, democratization and democracy...", Retrieved October 13, 2017
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