Geoffrey Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3948495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Military Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Central African-Iberian Crossroads
This article examines the place of Equatorial Guinea in US-Spanish relations during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy that followed. It analyses the relationship between US policies toward both countries, explores the degree to which fears of communism and other concerns overlapped and affected one another, and shows how US diplomats internalised Spanish perceptions of Spain’s former colony, thereby influe…
Fraternal Betrayal? The Spanish Army and the Decolonization of Morocco
This article examines the Spanish army during the decolonization of Morocco, and it explores the connection between Spanish cultural perceptions – seen most clearly in the myth of Spanish-Moroccan brotherhood – and strategic and operational failures. It pays particular attention to the views of Spain’s last High Commissioner in Morocco, Lieutenant General Rafael García-Valiño, and the Franco dictatorship’s ideologue of Spanish imperialism in Nort…
Military consequences of cultural perceptions
This article examines the impact of cultural perceptions on military operations, using the history of the Spanish army in Morocco as a case study. Emphasizing what they regarded as the fundamentally non-Western character of indigenous North African warfare, top Spanish officers initially doubted the applicability of European military methods in Morocco. They also erroneously attributed a “native” quality to military practices that Europeans thems…
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military
PART I Early Encounters: From the Colonial Era to the Mexican-American War 1. So necessary that we could not hold the country without them: Indian and Colonial Military Cooperation in the Colonial Southeast Julie Anne Sweet 2. African Americans and the American Revolution Michael Lee Lanning 3. Race and Republicanism: Understanding the Mindset of the Mexican War Soldier Richard Bruce Winders PART II All for the Union or All for Dixie?: Minority S…
Antonio Cazorla Sánchez. Franco
There is no shortage of biographies of Francisco Franco. Studies of the late Spanish dictator have appeared in various languages and lengths since the Spanish Civil War, revealing a wide variety of approaches, points of focus, and political sympathies on the part of their authors. Nevertheless, Antonio Cazorla Sánchez's new book makes an original contribution to the existing literature, examining the evolution of portrayals and perceptions of Fra…
Recepción literaria y cultura bélica
Durante las decadas inmediatamente posteriores al llamado ‘desastre del 98’, algunos miembros de las elites militares mantuvieron un intercambio de ideas y criticas con los mas destacados escritore
The Peculiarities of ‘Spanish Morocco’
Perceptions of shared history, culture, and ethnicity ensured Muslim Moroccans a secure place in the traditionalist hierarchy of Francisco Franco's Spain. These perceptions shaped the colonial policies of Franco's ‘National Catholic’ dictatorship, which paradoxically portrayed Islam as compatible with Christianity and denied that Spaniards differed in essence from Moroccans. As the dictatorship continued to embrace ultra-conservative and anti-mod…
War in the Age of Technology
Irrational Triumph
A nationalist vision, strongly rooted in Spanish Catholicism and military culture, was one of the most powerful ideological tools of the Franco regime until its demise in 1975. Although nationalist movements in Spain's Basque and Catalan provinces have been closely studied, hitherto little attention has been given to the origins and evolution of nationalism in Spain itself. In this study, historian Geoffrey Jensen examines the complex and richly …
Toward the ‘Moral Conquest’ of Morocco
The Spanish colonial enterprise in early twentieth-century North Africa was coloured by ambiguous perceptions of cultural purpose and identity. Because Spaniards have tended to view their primary focus of recent imperialist activity, Morocco, as more of a historical frontier — or even as an extension of the metropole — than as home to a fully oppositional Other, they have not been able to place as much emphasis on cultural, historical, and racial…
Military Nationalism and the State
Military culture can play an important role in the rise of modern nationalism, as developments in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain demonstrate. Like many Europeans, Spanish army officers turned increasingly to nationalist ideology as they lost faith in the ability of liberal institutions to meet their needs. Because Spain, where army officers had much influence on politics and society, lacked other strong movements of modern, Cas…
Moral Strength Through Material Defeat? The Consequences of 1898 for Spanish Military Culture
(1999). Moral Strength Through Material Defeat? The Consequences of 1898 for Spanish Military Culture. War & Society: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 25-39
The Peculiarities of ‘Spanish Morocco’
Perceptions of shared history, culture, and ethnicity ensured Muslim Moroccans a secure place in the traditionalist hierarchy of Francisco Franco's Spain. These perceptions shaped the colonial policies of Franco's ‘National Catholic’ dictatorship, which paradoxically portrayed Islam as compatible with Christianity and denied that Spaniards differed in essence from Moroccans. As the dictatorship continued to embrace ultra-conservative and anti-mod…
Military consequences of cultural perceptions
This article examines the impact of cultural perceptions on military operations, using the history of the Spanish army in Morocco as a case study. Emphasizing what they regarded as the fundamentally non-Western character of indigenous North African warfare, top Spanish officers initially doubted the applicability of European military methods in Morocco. They also erroneously attributed a “native” quality to military practices that Europeans thems…
Military Nationalism and the State
Military culture can play an important role in the rise of modern nationalism, as developments in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain demonstrate. Like many Europeans, Spanish army officers turned increasingly to nationalist ideology as they lost faith in the ability of liberal institutions to meet their needs. Because Spain, where army officers had much influence on politics and society, lacked other strong movements of modern, Cas…
Moral Strength Through Material Defeat? The Consequences of 1898 for Spanish Military Culture
(1999). Moral Strength Through Material Defeat? The Consequences of 1898 for Spanish Military Culture. War & Society: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 25-39
Military Nationalism and the State
Military culture can play an important role in the rise of modern nationalism, as developments in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain demonstrate. Like many Europeans, Spanish army officers turned increasingly to nationalist ideology as they lost faith in the ability of liberal institutions to meet their needs. Because Spain, where army officers had much influence on politics and society, lacked other strong movements of modern, Cas…
Toward the ‘Moral Conquest’ of Morocco
The Spanish colonial enterprise in early twentieth-century North Africa was coloured by ambiguous perceptions of cultural purpose and identity. Because Spaniards have tended to view their primary focus of recent imperialist activity, Morocco, as more of a historical frontier — or even as an extension of the metropole — than as home to a fully oppositional Other, they have not been able to place as much emphasis on cultural, historical, and racial…
War in the Age of Technology
Irrational Triumph
A nationalist vision, strongly rooted in Spanish Catholicism and military culture, was one of the most powerful ideological tools of the Franco regime until its demise in 1975. Although nationalist movements in Spain's Basque and Catalan provinces have been closely studied, hitherto little attention has been given to the origins and evolution of nationalism in Spain itself. In this study, historian Geoffrey Jensen examines the complex and richly …
The Peculiarities of ‘Spanish Morocco’
Perceptions of shared history, culture, and ethnicity ensured Muslim Moroccans a secure place in the traditionalist hierarchy of Francisco Franco's Spain. These perceptions shaped the colonial policies of Franco's ‘National Catholic’ dictatorship, which paradoxically portrayed Islam as compatible with Christianity and denied that Spaniards differed in essence from Moroccans. As the dictatorship continued to embrace ultra-conservative and anti-mod…
Recepción literaria y cultura bélica
Durante las decadas inmediatamente posteriores al llamado ‘desastre del 98’, algunos miembros de las elites militares mantuvieron un intercambio de ideas y criticas con los mas destacados escritore
Antonio Cazorla Sánchez. Franco
There is no shortage of biographies of Francisco Franco. Studies of the late Spanish dictator have appeared in various languages and lengths since the Spanish Civil War, revealing a wide variety of approaches, points of focus, and political sympathies on the part of their authors. Nevertheless, Antonio Cazorla Sánchez's new book makes an original contribution to the existing literature, examining the evolution of portrayals and perceptions of Fra…
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military
PART I Early Encounters: From the Colonial Era to the Mexican-American War 1. So necessary that we could not hold the country without them: Indian and Colonial Military Cooperation in the Colonial Southeast Julie Anne Sweet 2. African Americans and the American Revolution Michael Lee Lanning 3. Race and Republicanism: Understanding the Mindset of the Mexican War Soldier Richard Bruce Winders PART II All for the Union or All for Dixie?: Minority S…
Military consequences of cultural perceptions
This article examines the impact of cultural perceptions on military operations, using the history of the Spanish army in Morocco as a case study. Emphasizing what they regarded as the fundamentally non-Western character of indigenous North African warfare, top Spanish officers initially doubted the applicability of European military methods in Morocco. They also erroneously attributed a “native” quality to military practices that Europeans thems…
Fraternal Betrayal? The Spanish Army and the Decolonization of Morocco
This article examines the Spanish army during the decolonization of Morocco, and it explores the connection between Spanish cultural perceptions – seen most clearly in the myth of Spanish-Moroccan brotherhood – and strategic and operational failures. It pays particular attention to the views of Spain’s last High Commissioner in Morocco, Lieutenant General Rafael García-Valiño, and the Franco dictatorship’s ideologue of Spanish imperialism in Nort…
The Central African-Iberian Crossroads
This article examines the place of Equatorial Guinea in US-Spanish relations during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy that followed. It analyses the relationship between US policies toward both countries, explores the degree to which fears of communism and other concerns overlapped and affected one another, and shows how US diplomats internalised Spanish perceptions of Spain’s former colony, thereby influe…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Hispanic-African Historical Relations (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Spanish History and Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works)