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24: 80: 243:, Paul Corthorn questioned Mates's account of the influence of the "popular frontist" interpretation of events, but praised his engagement with Buchanan on the question of Catholics and described the book as "a carefully researched examination" with "much to commend it." Julius Ruiz, in 236:
and the lack of the detail offered on topics including aid initiatives, but described the book as " a valuable addition to the burgeoning literature on Britain and the Spanish Civil War, and one that deserves to be read alongside—and as a corrective to—the 'national' studies." In
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as "a significant addition to the historiography" and praised Mates's discussion of the impact of the popular front strategy on the CPGB, but took issue with his belief that industrial action could have proved a better strategy or succeeded in changing government policy.
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in the form of mass strikes would have been more successful in placing pressure on the British government to intervene. The popular front strategy, Mates writes, was "
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Corthorn, Paul (July 2009). "The Spanish Civil War and the British Left: Political Activism and the Popular Front – By Lewis H. Mates".
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Mates uses the case study of the North East to test assumptions about the British response to the Civil War, and argues that the
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Buchanan, Tom (April 2010). "The Spanish Civil War and the British Left: Political Activism and the Popular Front".
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Mates uses archival research and an analysis of local newspapers to offer an account of the effects of the
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to providing the Spanish Republic with what it needed to fight Franco".
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