Raymond Carr

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

From the Review

April 10, 2003: Spain and the Communists*

Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War edited by Ronald Radosh, Mary R. Habeck, and Grigory Sevostianov

November 28, 1996: Homage from Catalonia*

Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ by William A. Christian Jr.

November 17, 1994: A Seemingly Ordinary Man*

Franco by Paul Preston

July 18, 1991: Breaking Up with Castro*

Self-Portrait of the Other: A Memoir by Heberto Padilla

December 8, 1988: Marx & Martí (letter)

July 21, 1988: A Revolutionary Hero*

Inside the Monster: Writings on the United States and American Imperialism by José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall

Our America: Writings on Latin America and the Struggle for Cuban Independence by José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall

On Art and Literature: Critical Writings by José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall

March 3, 1988: The Invention of Latin America*

The Cambridge History of Latin America: Vol. I, Colonial Latin America edited by Leslie Bethell

The Cambridge History of Latin America: Vol. II, Colonial Latin America edited by Leslie Bethell

The Cambridge History of Latin America: Vol. III, From Independence to c. 1870 edited by Leslie Bethell

The Cambridge History of Latin America: Vol. IV, c. 1870 to 1930 edited by Leslie Bethell

The Cambridge History of Latin America: Vol. V, c. 1870 to 1930 edited by Leslie Bethell

February 4, 1988: How Franco Made It*

The Franco Regime: 1936–1975 by Stanley G. Payne

May 28, 1987: The Invisible Fist*

Aggression and Community:Paradoxes of Andalusian Culture by David D. Gilmore

November 20, 1986: The Don Quixote of Diplomacy*

The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline by J.H. Elliott

January 17, 1985: The New New Spanish History*

Fascism from Above: The Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in Spain, 1923–1930 by Shlomo Ben-Ami

Revolution and War in Spain, 1931–1939 edited by Paul Preston

La Encrucijada Vasca: Una vivisección sobre la crisis de convivencia en Euskadi by Ricardo García Damborenea

August 18, 1983: Our Colony*

Puerto Rico: A Political and Cultural History by Arturo Morales Carrión, with María Teresa Babín, by Aida R. Caro Costas, by Arturo Santana, by Luis González Vales

September 23, 1982: Purity and Danger*

The Anarchists of Casas Viejas by Jerome R. Mintz

February 19, 1981: The Spanish Style*

The Centralist Tradition of Latin America by Claudio Véliz

Public Policy in a No-Party State: Spanish Planning and Budgeting in the Twilight of the Franquist Era by Richard Gunther

July 19, 1979: The Red and the White*

Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War by Ronald Fraser

April 6, 1978: All or Nothing (letter)

October 13, 1977: All or Nothing*

The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936 by Murray Bookchin

Durruti: The People Armed by Abel Paz, translated by Nancy MacDonald

The Anarchist Collective: Workers Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939 edited by Sam Dolgoff, with an introduction by Murray Bookchin

March 12, 1970: Vodou Power*

Papa Doc: The Truth About Haiti Today by Bernard Diedrich, by Al Burt

The Haitian People by James Leyburn, with a new Introduction by Sidney Mintz

December 19, 1968: Allá vá! Ra! Ra! Ra!*

Iberia by James Michener

Spanish Scene by Chandler Brossard

Franco by Brian Crozier

Franco by George Hills

January 26, 1967: The Mestizo Republic*

Brazil and Africa by José Honório Rodrigues, translated by Richard A. Mazzava, translated by Sam Hileman

Plantation Boy by José Honório Rodrigues, translated by Emmi Baum

A History of Modern Brazil by José Maria Bello, translated by James L. Taylor, with a concluding chapter by Rollie E. Poppino

New Perspectives of Brazil edited by Eric N. Baklanoff

January 20, 1966: The Spanish Tragedy*

Spain, the Gentle Anarchy by Benjamin Welles

The Siege of the Alcazar by Cecil D. Eby

November 25, 1965: The Spanish Tragedy*

The Spanish Republic and the Civil War 1931-1939 by Gabriel Jackson

Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo José Cela, translated by Frances M. López Morillas

Books by Raymond Carr

The Civil War in Spain 1936-39 (1986)
Puerto Rico, a Colonial Experiment (1984)
Spain, 1808-1975 (1982)
Modern Spain, 1875-1980 (1980)
Spain, Dictatorship to Democracy (1979)
The Spanish Tragedy: The Civil War in Perspective (1977)
English Fox Hunting: A History (1976)
The Republic and the Civil War in Spain (1971)
Latin American Affairs (1970)