Sebastian Balfour

Sebastian Balfour
Sebastian Balfour in 2017
Born	1941 (age 83–84)
Occupation(s)	Historian and hispanist

Sebastian Balfour (born in 1941) ^[1] is an English historian and Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Spanish Studies at the London School of Economics.

Works

Author

Books

• Castro. Profiles in power. London and New York: Longman. 1990. ^{[n. 1]}
• La dictadura, los trabajadores y la ciudad. El movimiento obrero en el área metropolitana de Barcelona (1939-1988). Valencia: Edicions Alfons El Magnànim. 1994.
• The End of the Spanish Empire 1898-1923. Clarendon Press. 1997. ^[4]
• Deadly Embrace. Morocco and The Road to The Spanish Civil War. Oxford University Press. 2002. ^{[n. 2]}

Chapters in collective works

• "Nuevas y viejas interpretaciones del 98 y de sus consecuencias en España". XIII Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana. VIII Congreso Internacional de Historia de América (AEA). Casa de Colón. 1998. pp. 35–42.
• "El 98 y El Nacionalismo Español". Imágenes del 98 (in Spanish). Fundación BBV. 1999.
• J. Álvarez-Junco, J. & Adrian Shubert, ed. (1999). "The Desarrollo years, 1955-1975". In A History of Spain since 1808. A. Macmillan. pp. 277–288.
• Ismael Saz & Edward Acton, ed. (2001). "War, Nationalism and the Masses in Spain, 1898-1939". La transición a la política de masas : V Seminario Histórico Hispano-Británico. Universitat de València. pp. 75–92. ISBN   84-370-5148-7.
• Angel Smith & Emma Dávila-Cox, ed. (1999). "The Impact of the War Within Spain: Continuity or Crisis?". The Crisis of 1898. Colonial Redistribution and Nationalist Mobilization. pp. 180–194.

Articles in academic journals

• Balfour, Sebastian (2001). "Secret Wars in Forgotten Africa". Journal of Romance Studies . 1 (3): 121–132. doi:10.3828/jrs.1.3.121.
• Balfour, Sebastian (2008). "The concept of historical revisionism: Spain since the 1930s" . International Journal of Iberian Studies . 21 (3): 179–186. doi:10.1386/ijis.21.3.179_1.^{[ failed verification ]}

Co-author

• Balfour, Sebastian; Quiroga, Alejandro (2007). España reinventada. Nación e identidad desde la transición. Barcelona: Península.

Editor

• Sebastian Balfour, ed. (2005). The Politics of Contemporary Spain. Routledge.
• Sebastian Balfour & Paul Preston, ed. (1999). Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. ^{[4] [n. 3]}
• Sebastian Balfour; Laurie Howes; Michael de Larrabeiti; Anthony Weale, eds. (2008). Trinity Tales: Tales from Trinity College Dublin in Sixties. Lilliput Press.

Notes

1. First edition in 1990. ^[2] Re-edited in 1995 and 2008 ^[3]
2. Published by Peninsula in Spanish as Abrazo mortal. De la Guerra Colonial a La Guerra Civil. España y Marruecos (1909-1939) ^[5]
3. Also re-published as España y las grandes potencias y los efectos del Desastre de 1898. Preston, P. Critica. 2002. and España y las grandes potencias en el siglo XX. Critica. 2002.

References

1. "Great Hispanists Series: Sebastian Balfour". EUNIC London.
2. "New Books Received". Journal of Latin American Studies . 23 (1). Cambridge University Press: 265–272. 1991. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00013705. JSTOR   157568.
3. Artaraz, Kepa (2009). "Sebastian Balfour, Castro: Profiles in Power". Journal of Latin American Studies . 41 (3). Cambridge University Press: 592–594. doi:10.1017/S0022216X09990289. S2CID   146210080.
4. Hugo, Markus M. (2001). "Reviewed Works: The End of the Spanish Empire 1898-1923. [El fin del Imperio Español (1898-1923)] by Sebastian Balfour; Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century by Sebastian Balfour, Paul Preston". Iberoamericana. 1 (1). Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert: 255–257. JSTOR   41673881.
5. Abrazo mortal. De la Guerra Colonial a La Guerra Civil. España y Marruecos (1909-1939) (in Spanish). Peninsula. 2002.

Links

• Professor Sebastian Balfour - Sebastian Balfour official website
• Professor Sebastian Balfour - London School of Economics