Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Preface -- Chronology -- Part I: Origins -- 1. The Politics of Modern Spain -- 2. An Authoritarian Alternative: The Primo de Rivera Dictatorship -- 3. The Second Republic -- 4. The Nationalist Opposition -- 5. Franco and the Military -- Part II: The Civil War, 1936-1939 -- 6. The Rebellion of the Eighteenth of July -- 7. Establishment of the Franco Dictatorship -- 8. The Nationalist War Effort -- 9. Francos Wartime Government -- 10. Civil War as Crusade -- 11. The Repression -- Part III: The Dictadura, 1939-1959 -- 12. Semi-Fascism: The New State of 1939 -- 13. The "German Phase," 1940-1942 -- 14. From Nonbelligerance to Neutrality, 1942-1945 -- 15. Ostracism and Realignment, 1945-1950 -- 16. Social and Economic Policy in the 1940s -- 17. Complacent Dictator -- 18. The Regime at Mid-Passage, 1950-1959 -- Part IV: Developmentalism and Decay, 1959-1975 -- 19. The Desarrollo -- 20. Continuity and Reform during the 1960s -- 21. Twilight of the Regime, 1969-1973 -- 22. The Death of Franco -- 23. The Franco Regime in Perspective -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.