Pamela Beth Radcliff is an American historian and professor at the
University of California at San Diego
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and an authority on the history of modern
Spain
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.Celia Amoros, August 15, 2009, El Pais Feminismo y legitimidad democrática (Feminism and democratic legitimacy) Retrieved October 13, 2017, "... Radcliff considers that the style of feminist militancy clashed with that of the political culture of transition..."SD Metro Magazine, October 12, 2011, Daily Business Report — Oct. 12, 2011 Retrieved October 13, 2017, "...Pamela Radcliff, chair of the UCSD History Department and a historian of modern Spain...." Her research focuses on
mass politics
Mass politics is a political order resting on the emergence of mass political parties.
The emergence of mass politics generally associated with the rise of mass society coinciding with the Industrial Revolution in the West. However, because of ...
,
gender issues
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,
civil society
Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.democratic transitions.UC Merced Spain in the Modern World Retrieved October 13, 2017, "...Pamela Radcliff is chair of the History Department and a historian of Modern Spain ... research has focused on mass politics, gender, civil society and democratic transitions. ... ''Making Democratic Citizens'' explores the grass-roots contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain’s much celebrated democratic transition of the 1970s, ... She has been carrying out research in Madrid for thirty years ... Radcliff ... B.A. from Scripps College and M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University...." She did a ''
Teaching Company
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'' course entitled ''Interpreting the 20th century: the Struggle over Democracy''.University of Toronto, Library Catalogue Interpreting_the_20th_century_[videorecording :_the_struggle_over_democracy.html" ;"title="ideorecording">Interpreting the 20th century [videorecording : the struggle over democracy">ideorecording">Interpreting the 20th century [videorecording : the struggle over democracy Chantilly, Virginia, 2004, Retrieved October 13, 2017The Teaching Company Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy by Pamela Radcliff, U. California San Diego Her publications on modern Spanish history received numerous positive reviews.Digital Commons Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Messenger, David A. (2012) "Review of: Pamela Beth Radcliff, Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960-1978," Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 37 : Iss. 1 , Article 28.Sasha D. Pack, SUNY Buffalo The Journal of Modern History Volume 84, Number 4, December 1, 2012, Retrieved October 13, 2017Cambridge Core, April Smith, December 1998 Review Volume 43, Issue 3, pages 488-498, Retrieved October 13, 2017Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960–78, by Pamela Beth Radcliff, Stephen Jacobson (reviewer), English Historical Review 2013 128: 509-511E Magazine, June 13, 2017 Political Dissent in Democratic Athens- Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule "...Radcliff ... presentation of modern Spanish history incorporates the latest thinking on key issues of modernity, social movements, nationalism, democratization and democracy...", Retrieved October 13, 2017Apellido, Fesefeldt, Henrike, De la movilización a la Guerra Civil. Historia política y social de Gijón (1900-1937) by Pamela Beth Radcliff, Iberoamericana (2001-), volume 6, 2006, june 2006, pages 269-271, jstor = 41676273, She has received numerous awards for her scholarship and teaching, such as the Keller-Sierra Prize for her monograph ''From Mobilization to Civil War: The politics of polarization in the Spanish city of Gijón, 1900-1937''.Western Association of Women Historians Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize 1998, Pamela Beth Radcliff, From Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City Gijón 1900-1937, (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Selected publications
* ''Interpreting the 20th century: the Struggle over Democracy'', The Teaching Company, Chantilly, Virginia, 2004
* ''From mobilization to Civil War: The politics of polarization in the Spanish city of Gijón, 1900-1937'', Cambridge University Press, 1996) Published in 2004 by the editor Debate in Spanish with the title ''De la movilización a la Guerra Civil. Historia política y social de Gijón (1900-1937)'', pp. 269–271, p. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
* ''Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain'', University of New York, 1998, (co-editor with Victoria Lorée Enders)
* ''Modern Spain: 1808 to the Present'', John Wiley & Sons, May 8, 2017
* ''Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition'', Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xvii plus 414 pp.Project Muse, Montserrat Miller, Winter 2013, Journal of Social History, Volume 47, Number 2, Winter 2013, pp. 545-547 Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition by Pamela Beth Radcliff (review) Retrieved October 13, 2017