El Terrible

This book is a biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a mining town located in Andalusia, Spain. Based on previously unexamined sources, the study paints a fresh portrait of industrial workers and their families in Córdoba province, enriching our understanding of this mostly agricultural region.

Patricia A. Schechter teaches history at Portland State University in Oregon, U.S.A. She is the author of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930, which won the Keller-Sierra Book Prize. Her other books and public history projects have been recognized for their excellence by ACRL Choice and the Oral History Association, among others.

Prologue: The Myth of Terrible 1. An Embattled Polity 2. Common Ground, Sacred Ground 3. Building Santa Barbara 4. El Dos de Abril 5. The Politics of Wrongdoing 6. Making and Unmaking Place Epilogue: A Theatrics of Death