Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction Martin S. Alexander and Helen Graham; 2. The formation of the French Popular Front, 1934-6 Joel Colton; 3. The origins and nature of the Spanish Popular Front Santos Juliá; 4. The French Radicals, Spain and the emergence of appeasement H. Haywood Hunt; 5. The Spanish army and the Popular Front Michael Alpert; 6. Soldiers and socialists: the French officers corps and leftist government, 1935-7 Martin S. Alexander; 7. The Spanish Church and the Popular Front: the experience of Salamanca province Mary Vincent; 8. 'La main tendue': the French Communist Party and the Catholic Church, 1935-7 James Steel; 9. Trotsky and left-wing critics of the Popular Front Tom Kemp; 10. The development of marxist theory in Spain and the Frente Popular Paul Haywood; 11. The other Popular Front: French anarchism and the Front Révolutionnaire David Berry; 12. The French Popular Front and the politics of Jacques Doriot Alan Forrest; 13. The Blum government, the Conseil National Economique and economic policy Adrian Rossiter; 14. Social and economic policies of the Spanish left in theory and in practice José Manuel Macarro Vera; 15. Women, men and the 1936 strikes in France Siân Reynolds; 16. From clientelism to communism: the Marseille working class and the Popular Front David A. L. Levy; 17. A reinterpretation of the Spanish Popular Front: the case of Asturias Adrian Shubert; 18. Le temps des loisirs: popular tourism and mass leisure in the vision of the Front Populaire Julian Jackson; 19. The educational and cultural policy of the Popular Front government in Spain, 1936-9 Christopher Cobb; 20. French intellectual groups and the Popular Front: traditional and innovative uses of the media Martin Stanton; Index.