Associate Professor George Esenwein received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England in 1987, his M.A. in Politics from Durham University, Durham, England in 1974, and his B.A. from University of Texas at Austin in 1973. Professor Esenwein joined the University of Florida in 1993 after teaching at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton and Davie, Florida. In addition to writing a history of the Spanish anarchists (Anarchist Ideology and the Spanish Working-class Movement, 1868-1898, Berkeley, 1989), Dr. Esenwein has published numerous articles and reviews on the history of modern Spain. With Adrian Shubert (York University) he wrote Spain at War: The Spanish Civil War in Context, 1931-1939, (Longman: London/New York, 1995). As an associate editor of the six-volume New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York: Charles Scribners, 2004), Dr. Esenwein was responsible for soliciting and editing articles on European intellectual history. He also contributed two articles: “Anarchism” and “Socialism”. His latest book, The Spanish Civil War: A Modern Tragedy, (Routledge, 2005), interweaves a narrative account of the civil war with a wide-range of primary source material.
Professor Esenwein served as the Associate Chair to the department of history from 1995-1999. His recent courses include: Readings in Mediterranean History, Modern European Revolutions, Modern European Ideologies, Europe Since 1914, Cold War in Europe, and Second World War in Europe.
