Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past Perpetrators' Confes

The foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account:  an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as the pathway to peace and democracy. That foundatio

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REVEALING NEW TRUTHS ABOUT SPAIN’S VIOLENT PAST Perpetrators’ Confessions and Victim Exhumations

Paloma Aguilar and Leigh A. Payne

St Antony’s Series Series Editors Halbert Jones St Antony’s College University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom Matthew Walton St Antony’s College University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom

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Paloma Aguilar • Leigh A. Payne

Revealing New Truths about Spain’s Violent Past Perpetrators’ Confessions and Victim Exhumations

Paloma Aguilar Departamento de Ciencia Política UNED Madrid, Spain

Leigh A. Payne St Antony’s College University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom

St Antony’s Series ISBN 978-1-137-56228-9 ISBN 978-1-137-56229-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56229-6

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For their constant support, friendship, and love, we dedicate this book to our husbands, Jesús Cuéllar and Stephen Meili. We also dedicate it to our parents, Susa Fernández, Ángel Aguilar, and Donald and Adrah Payne, for stimulating our intellectual curiosity and for their enduring warmth.

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Aguilar, P. (2008) Políticas de la memoria y memorias de la política. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. Payne, L. A. (2008) Unsettling accounts: neither truth nor reconciliation in confessions of state violence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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