Pamela Beth Radcliff (born 1956) is an American historian and professor at the

University of California at San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Sc ...

and an authority on the history of modern

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.Celia Amoros, August 15, 2009, El Pais
Feminismo y legitimidad democrática (Feminism and democratic legitimacy)
Retrieved October 13, 2017, "... Radcliff considers that the style of feminist militancy clashed with that of the political culture of transition..."SD Metro Magazine, October 12, 2011,
Daily Business Report — Oct. 12, 2011
Retrieved October 13, 2017, "...Pamela Radcliff, chair of the UCSD History Department and a historian of modern Spain...." Her research focuses on

mass politics Mass politics is a political order resting on the emergence of mass political parties. The emergence of mass politics generally associated with the rise of mass society coinciding with the Industrial Revolution in the West. However, because of ...

gender issues Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other than ...

civil society Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.democratic transitions A democratic transition describes a phase in a country's political system as a result of an ongoing change from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one. The process is known as democratisation, political changes moving in a democratic directi ...

.UC Merced
Spain in the Modern World
Retrieved October 13, 2017, "...Pamela Radcliff is chair of the History Department and a historian of Modern Spain ... research has focused on mass politics, gender, civil society and democratic transitions. ... ''Making Democratic Citizens'' explores the grass-roots contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain’s much celebrated democratic transition of the 1970s, ... She has been carrying out research in Madrid for thirty years ... Radcliff ... B.A. from Scripps College and M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University...." She did a ''

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'' course entitled ''Interpreting the 20th century: the Struggle over Democracy''.University of Toronto, Library Catalogue
Interpreting the 20th century videorecording : the struggle over democracy
Chantilly, Virginia, 2004, Retrieved October 13, 2017The Teaching Company

by Pamela Radcliff, U. California San Diego Her publications on modern Spanish history received numerous positive reviews.Digital Commons
Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
, Messenger, David A. (2012) "Review of: Pamela Beth Radcliff, Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960-1978," Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 37 : Iss. 1, Article 28.Sasha D. Pack, SUNY Buffalo
The Journal of Modern History
Volume 84, Number 4, December 1, 2012, Retrieved October 13, 2017Cambridge Core, April Smith, December 1998
Review
Volume 43, Issue 3, pages 488-498, Retrieved October 13, 2017González Madrid, Damián Alberto, ''Vínculos de Historia'', number 1, 2012, Radcliff, Pamela B., Making democratic citizens in Spain. Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960-78, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
article
, pp. 325-329Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960–78, by Pamela Beth Radcliff, Stephen Jacobson (reviewer), English Historical Review 2013 128: 509-511E Magazine, June 13, 2017
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens- Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule
, "...Radcliff ... presentation of modern Spanish history incorporates the latest thinking on key issues of modernity, social movements, nationalism, democratization and democracy...", Retrieved October 13, 2017 She has received numerous awards for her scholarship and teaching, such as the Keller-Sierra Prize for her monograph ''From Mobilization to Civil War: The politics of polarization in the Spanish city of Gijón, 1900-1937''.Western Association of Women Historians
Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize
, 1998, Pamela Beth Radcliff, From Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City Gijón 1900-1937, (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Selected publications

* ''Interpreting the 20th century: the Struggle over Democracy'', The Teaching Company, Chantilly, Virginia, 2004 * ''From mobilization to Civil War: The politics of polarization in the Spanish city of Gijón, 1900-1937'', Cambridge University Press, 1996) Published in 2004 by the editor Debate in Spanish with the title ''De la movilización a la Guerra Civil. Historia política y social de Gijón (1900-1937)'', pp. 269–271, p. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). * ''Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain'', University of New York, 1998, (co-editor with Victoria Lorée Enders) * ''Modern Spain: 1808 to the Present'', John Wiley & Sons, May 8, 2017 * ''Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition'', Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xvii plus 414 pp.Project Muse, Montserrat Miller, Winter 2013, Journal of Social History, Volume 47, Number 2, Winter 2013, pp. 545-547
Making Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition by Pamela Beth Radcliff (review)
Retrieved October 13, 2017

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