Spanish History since 1808

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This comprehensive treatment of Spanish history captures nearly two centuries of Spain in one volume. It provides a major re-evaluation of modern Spain and draws from the work of leading international historians. The book is organized into chronological sections around the main periods of historical change in Spain and each section provides an in-depth exploration of the principle themes and developments for its period. Researchers have also drawn extensive material from archives from recently released materials from the post-Franco years. Contents Contributors Introduction Notes I. The Travails of Liberalism, 1808-1874 1 'The liberal revolution, 1808-1843 The crisis of the absolute monarchy The war against the French, 1808-1814 Restoration and revolution, 1814-1833 The Carlist War and the triumph of liberalism Moderates versus Progressives, 1840-1843 Conclusion The Moderate ascendancy, 1843-1868 The power of the Notables: social foundations of the Moderate hegemony The taming of the revolution Institutional instruments and political practice of the Moderate years The Revolution of 1854 and the Liberal Union (1854-1868) 3 Church and State, 1808—1874 Throne and Altar Constitution and Altar Ecclesiastical revolution Towards a new settlement 4 The military and politics The army in the War of Independence The rise of the pronunciamiento tradition The Carlist War and the Regime of the Generals, 1833-1868 The social structure of the Spanish army The army in war and revolution 5 The left: from liberalism to democracy 1868 and the ‘Revolutionary Sexennium’ Part II. The Restoration, 1875-1914 6 The political system of the Restoration, 1875-1914: political and social elites The consolidation of constitutional monarchy Clientelism and ‘caciquismo’ The ‘fin de siècle’ crisis and ‘regenerationist’ responses From clientelism to incipient corporatism Conclusion 7 Spain in the world: from great empire to minor European power Foreign policy at a time of crisis and transition The foreign policy of liberal Spain The Restoration: from isolation to disaster Aftermath of disaster: a new imperialism in Morocco Notes 8 The Restoration: Regeneration and the clash of nationalisms, 1875-1914 The political shift after the culmination of liberalism Decolonization and the rise of new nationalisms Nationalist contagion: urbanization, intellectuals and a service society Conclusion 9 The emerging challenge of mass politics The Restoration regime and mass politics Social and economic context (or mass mobilization Interpreting mass mobilization Republicanism and mass politics, 1875-1914 The labour movement Women and consumer politics Conclusion Notes 10 Fin de siècle culture Modernism and the fin-de-siècle crisis: the Generation of 1898 The intellectuals and their project Regional renaissance: Catalonia and Galicia High modernism: from Juan Ramón Jiménez to the Generation of 1927 From purity and dehumanization to a literature of social commitment Postscript Part III. Spain in the Interwar Crisis of Liberalism, 1914-1939 11 Economic growth and backwardness, 1780-1930 1 Backwardness, growth and structural change 2 The loss of empire 3 The performance of Spanish agriculture: a reassessment 4 Industrial growth and the market 5 International trade and economic backwardness Conclusions Notes 12 The assault on liberalism, 1914-1923 The crisis of the dynastic parties, 1909-13 The passionate war Neutrality and the attempts at revolution, 1914-1917 The post-war social crisis The constitutional monarchy struggles to survive, 1918-1923 Conclusions 13 The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, 1923-1931 The coup d’etat and the composition of the regime Morocco The civil directorate: political, economic and social aspects The labour movement The failed consolidation of the regime The opposition The collapse of the dictatorship The Dictablancla and the road to the Republic 14 The Second Republic, 1931-1936 The provisional government Republicans and Socialists in power, 1931-1933 Social conflict The resurgence of the right The end of the Republican-Socialist coalition The centre-right in power, 1933-1935 October 1934 The popular front and the election of 1936 15 The Spanish Civil War From military rising to civil war The Republican zone Nationalist Spain Foreign intervention Military engagements: 1936-1937 Cultures in conflict The struggle for power in the Republican zone Final year of fighting and the Casado coup (1939) Part IV. The Franco Regime, 1939-1975 16 Early Francoism, 1939-1957 The problem of definitions The army and the Church The regime, the falange and Spanish society Reproduction of ideology Economy: from autarchy to liberalization Agricultural policy Industrial policy Reform and economic liberalization, 1951-1956 Repression Opposition 17 The desarrollo years, 1955-1975 The transformation of the economy The transformation of society The transformation of values The rise of protest The political opposition and social protest Modernization and the Franco regime 18 Towards a new moral order Church and State: a mutually beneficial relationship Religion and cultural values Race, religion and language: markers of a cultural identity Gender identities and the Sección Femenina Family and home: the expansion of the race Conclusion Part V. The Democratic Monarchy, 1975-1996 19 The opposition to Franco, the transition to democracy and the new political system Forces of opposition The transition The first elections and the Constitution of 1978 The end of consensus, 1979-1982 20 The reawakening of peripheral nationalisms and the State of the Autonomous Communities Peripheral nationalisms under the Franco regime Peripheral nationalisms and the democratic transition The 1978 Constitution and the State of the Autonomous Communities The emergence of ‘autonomist regionalisms’ The evolution of the State of the Autonomous Communities Spanish nationalism since 1978 Conclusion: on the road to federalism? 21 The Socialist era, 1982-1996 A government that governs Slow and steady decline A long senes of scandals Chronology Further Reading General works Part I The Travails of Liberalism, 1808-1874 Part II The Restoration, 1875-1914 Part III Spain in the internar crisis of liberalism, 1914-1939 Part IV The Franco Regime, 1939-1975 Part V The Democratic Monarchy Index