Chris Ealham

British historian and hispanist

Chris Ealham


Born	1965 Kent

Chris Ealham (born 1965) is a British historian and hispanist. He is specialised in the history of anarchism in Spain.

Biography

Born in Kent (England) in 1965.^[1]^[2] He earned a PhD in 1995 from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, reading a dissertation titled Policing the Recession: Unemployment, Social Protest and Law-and-Order in Republican Barcelona, 1930-1936, supervised by Paul Preston.^[3]^[4]

A former lecturer at Cardiff University and Lancaster University, Ealham, based in Madrid, works as lecturer at Saint Louis University Madrid Campus.^[5] A partaker in the often acrimonious debate on Spanish civil war historiography, Ealham argues populist historians have set in motion a pro-Franco revisionism in Civil War studies.^[6]

Works

Author

La lucha por la ciudad: clase, cultura y conflicto social en Barcelona, 1898-1937 (in Spanish). Madrid: Alianza Editorial. 2005.^[7]
Anarchism and the city: Revolution and counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937. Oakland: AK Press. 2010.^[8]
Barcelone contre ses habitants 1835–1937, quartiers ouvriers de la revolution (in French). Toulouse: Collectif des Métiers De l’Édition. 2014.
Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement. Oakland: AK Press. 2015.
- Vivir la anarquía, vivir la utopía. José Peirats y la historia del anarcosindicalismo español. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. 2016.^[9]^[10]^[11]
Les anarchistes dans la ville: révolution et contre-révolution à Barcelone, 1898-1937 (in French). Marseille: Éditions Agone. 2021.

Editor

Ealham, Chris; Richards, Michael, eds. (2005). The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. New York: Cambridge University Press.^[12]

References

Citations

^ Miguel Capell 2016, p. 12.
^ Martínez 2016.
^ Gorostiza 2012, p. 327.
^ Romero Salvadó 2014, p. 453.
^ Vadillo Muñoz 2017, p. 540.
^ Burrowes 2016, p. 6.
^ Rey Reguillo 2007, p. 264–270.
^ Gorostiza 2012, pp. 327–329.
^ Freán Hernández 2016.
^ Vadillo Muñoz 2017, pp. 539–541.
^ Hoyos, Francisco Martínez (2016). "Review of Vivir La Anarquía, Vivir La Utopía". El Ciervo. 65 (756): 44. ISSN 0045-6896. JSTOR 26359989.
^ Greene 2006, p. 93–94.

Bibliography

Burrowes, Darryl Anthony (2016). Historians at War: Cold War Influences on Anglo-American Representations of the Spanish Civil War (PDF).
Evans, Danny (2016). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham". European History Quarterly. 46 (4): 727–728. doi:10.1177/0265691416658234l. ISSN 0265-6914. S2CID 152033254.
Hernández, Óscar Freán (2018). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham". Journal of Social History. 52 (1): 201–203. doi:10.1093/jsh/shx007. ISSN 0022-4529.
Freán Hernández, Oscar (2016). "Chris Ealham, Vivir la anarquía, vivir la utopía. José Peirats y la historia del anarcosindicalismo español, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2015". Cahiers de civilisation espagnole contemporaine (17). ISSN 1957-7761.
Gorostiza, Santiago (2012). "Ealham, Chris. Anarchism and the city: Revolution and counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937 Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2010, 263 p." (PDF). Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica. 58 (2). Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: 327–329. doi:10.5565/rev/dag.180. ISBN 978-1-84935-012-9. ISSN 0212-1573.
Greene, Nathanael (2006). "The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. Ealham, Chris, and Michael Richards, eds.: New York: Cambridge University Press, 282 pp". History: Reviews of New Books. 34 (3). doi:10.1080/03612759.2006.10526884. S2CID 143802016.
Guirao, Pedro García (2018). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement; Goals and Means: Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federacion Anarquista Iberica". Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 12 (2): 188–192. doi:10.14321/jstudradi.12.2.0188. ISSN 1930-1189. JSTOR 10.14321/jstudradi.12.2.0188.
Miguel Capell, Jordi de (3 May 2016). "Chris Ealham, historiador. "Encara fa por la paraula 'anarquisme': els pànics morals segueixen influint"" (PDF). La Directa: 12–15.
Martínez, Guillem (12 June 2016). "Chris Ealham / Hispanista. "No creo que Podemos ofrezca gran cosa nueva"". CTXT.
Ortiz, David (2016). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham". Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. 41 (1). doi:10.26431/0739-182X.1237. ISSN 0739-182X.
Rey Reguillo, Fernando del (2007). "Chris Ealham: La lucha por Barcelona. Clase, cultura y conflicto, 1898-1937, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2005, 381 páginas". Historia y Política (17). Madrid: UCM; CEPC; UNED: 264–270. ISSN 1575-0361.
Romero Salvadó, Francisco J. (2014). "Investigando el laberinto español en el Reino Unido" (PDF). Stvdia Historica: Historia Contemporánea (32). Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca: 451–462.
Vadillo Muñoz, Julián (2017). "Recensiones". Hispania Nova (15). Getafe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. doi:10.20318/hn.2017.3503.