Spanish History since 1808

399 Pages·2000·8.999 MB·English

by  Adrian Shubert, José Álvarez Junco

SPANISH HISTORY SINCE 1808

SPANISH HISTORY SINCE
1808
Edited by
JOSÉ ALVAREZ JUNCO
Prince of Asturias Professor of Spanish History,
Tufts University, USA
and
ADRIAN SHUBERT
Professor of History, York University, Canada
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Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction
José Alvarez Junco and Adrian Shubert 1
PART I THE TRAVAILS OF LIBERALISM, 1808-1874
1 The liberal revolution, 1808-1843 18
Isabel Burdiel
2 The Moderate ascendancy, 1843-1868 33
Jesús Cruz
3 Church and state, 1808-1874 49
William J. Callahan
4 The military and politics, 1808-1874 64
Carolyn P. Boyd
5 The left: from liberalism to democracy 80
Demetrio Castro
PART B THE RESTORATION, 1875-1914
6 The political system of the Restoration, 1875-1914: 94
political and social elites
Stephen Jacobson and Javier Moreno Luzon
7 Spain in the world: from great empire to minor European 111
power
Enrique Moradiellos
8 The Restoration monarchy and the competition of 121
nationalisms
Enric Ucelay Da Cal
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9 The emerging challenge of mass politics 138
Pamela Beth Radcliff
10 Fin de Siècle culture 135
Edward Baker
PART ffl SPAIN IN THE INTERWAR CRISIS OF LIBERALISM,
1914-1939
11 Economic growth and backwardness, 1780-1930 180
Leandro Prados de la Escosura
12 The assault on liberalism, 1914-1923 191
Luis Arranz, Mercedes Cabrera and Fernando del Rey
13 The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, 1923-1931 207
Javier Tusell and Genoveva Queipo de Llano
14 The Second Republic, 1931-1936: sectarianism, schisms 222
and strife
Nigel Townson
15 The Spanish Civil War 236
George Esenwein
PART IV THE FRANCO REGIME, 1939-1975
16 Early Francoism, 1939-1957 260
Antonio Cazorla
17 The Desarrollo years, 1955-1975 111
Sebastian Balfour
18 Towards a new moral order: National Catholicism, culture 289
and gender
Mary Nash
PART V THE DEMOCRATIC MONARCHY, 1975-1996
19 The opposition to Franco, the transition to democracy and 303
the new political system
Paloma Aguilar
20 The reawakening of peripheral nationalisms and the State 315
of the Autonomous Communities
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
21 The Socialist era, 1982-1996 331
Santos Julia
Chronology 345
Further Reading 349
Index 3 55
Contributors
Paloma Aguilar is a Lecturer in Political Science at the UNED in Madrid and
author of Memoria y olvido de la Guerra Civil Española (1996).
José Alvarez Junco is Prince of Asturias Professor of Spanish History at Tufts
University. His books include El emperador del paralelo: Lerroux y la
demagogia populista (1990) and La ideología política del anarquismo espa­
ñol (1868-1910) (1976).
Luis Arranz is Lecturer in the History of Political and Social Thought and
Movements at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is the author of
a number of articles on nineteenth and twentieth century political history.
Edward Baker is Professor of Spanish at the University of Florida. His books
include Materiales para escribir Madrid (1991) and La biblioteca de Don
Quijote (1997).
Sebastian Balfour is Reader at the London School of Economics. He is author
of Dictatorship, Workers, and the City: Labour in Greater Barcelona Since
1939 (1989) and The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923 (1997).
Carolyn P. Boyd is Professor of History at the University of California at
Irvine. She is author of Praetorian Politics in Liberal Spain (1979) and
Historia Patria (1997).
Isabel Burdiel is Professor of Contemporary History of the Universidad de
Valencia. She has written widely on the early nineteenth cèntury and is
author of La política de los notables: moderados y avanzados durante el
Régimen del Estatuto Real, (1834-36) (1987) and ‘Myths of Failure, Myths
of Success: New Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Spanish Liberalism* in
the Journal of Modem History, (Dec 1998), pp. 892-912.
Mercedes Cabrera is Professor of History at the Universidad Complutense de
Madrid. She is author of La patronal ante la II República: organizaciones y
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estrategia (1931-1936) (1983) and La industria, la prensa y la política:
Nicolás Ma. de Urgoiti, 1869-1951 (1994).
William J. Callahan is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and
Fellow of Victoria College. He is author of Honor, Industry and Commerce
in Eighteenth Century Spain, La Santa y Real Hermandad del Refugio y
Piedad de Madrid, 1619-1832, and Church, Politics, and Society in Spain,
1750-1874, ( 1984).
Demetrio Castro is Professor at the Public University of Navarra. He is
author of Los males de la imprenta: política y libertad de prensa en una
sociedad dual (1998).
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez is currently a Research Fellow at the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid. He is the author of Desarrollo sin Reformistas
(1999) and of a number of articles on the origins of Francoism.
Jesús Cruz is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.
He is the author of Gentlemen, Bourgeois and Revolutionaries: Political
Change and Cultural Persistence among Spanish Dominant Groups,
1750-1850 (1996).
George Esenwein is Associate Professor of History at the University of
Florida at Gainesville. He is the author of Anarchist Ideology and the
Working-Class Movement in Spain, 1868-1898 (1989) and co-author of
Spain at War: The Spanish Civil War in Context, 1931-1939 (1995).
Stephen Jacobson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New
Hampshire. He is the author of a number of articles on the legal profession in
nineteenth century Catalonia.
Santos Juliá is Professor of History and Sociology at the Universidad Nacio­
nal de Educación a Distancia. His many books on modern Spanish history
include Madrid, 1931-1934: de la fiesta popular a la lucha de clases (1984)
and Manuel Azaña: una biografía política: del Ateneo al Palacio Nacional
(1990).
Enrique Moradiellos teaches modem history at the Universidad de Extrem­
adura. He is the author of a number books, including Neutralidad benévola:
el gobierno británico y la insurrección militar española de 1936 (Oviedo,
1990), Las Caras de Clio: Introducción a la Historia (Madrid, 1994) and La
Perfidia de Albión: el gobierno británico y la guerra civil española (Madrid,
1996).
Javier Moreno Luzon is Lecturer in History at the Universidad Complu­
tense, Madrid. He is author of Romanones: Caciquismo y política liberal
(1998).
Mary Nash is Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad de
Barcelona. Her books include Experiencias desiguales: conflictos sociales y
Contributors IX
respuestas colectivas (1994) and Defying Male Civilization: Women in the
Spanish Civil War (1995).
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas is Professor of History at the Universidad de Santiago
de Compostela. He is author of Historiographical Approaches to Nation-
alism in Spain (1993) and co-editor of O nacionalismo galego (1995).
Leandro Prados de la Escosura is Professor of Economic History at the
Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. He is author of De imperio a nación:
crecimiento y atraso económico en España (1780-1930) (1988) and
‘Growth and Macro-economic Performance in Spain 1939-93* in N. Crafts
and G. Toriolo, (eds); Economic Growth in Europe Since 1945 (1996).
Genoveva Queipo de Llano is Lecturer in Modem History at the Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia. She is the author of Los Intelectuales y la
Dictadura de Primo de Rivera (1987).
Pamela Beth Radcliff is Associate Professor of History at the University of
California at San Diego. Her monograph, Prom Mobilization to Civil War:
The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City of Gijón (1900-1937)
(1996), was awarded the Sierra Book Prize for 1997 by the Western Associa­
tion of Women Historians. She is co-editor of Constructing Spanish
Womanhood Female Identity in Northern Spain (1999).
Femando del Rey teaches the History of Social and Political Thoughts and
Movements at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is the author of
La Defense Contra la Revolución (1995), and of Proprietarios y patronos.
La política de las organizaciones económicas en la Esparta de la Restaura-
cíon, Madrid (1992).
Adrian Shubert is Professor and Chair of History at York University. His
books include A Social History of Modem Spain (1990) and Death and
Money in the Afternoon: A History of Spanish Bullfighting (1999).
Nigel Townson teaches History at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. He is
editor of El republicanismo en España (1830-1977) (1994).
Javier Tusell is Professor of Modem History at the Universidad Nacional de
Educación a Distancia in Madrid. He is the author of numerous books on
twentieth-century Spain, including Antonio Maura: una biografía política
(1994) and Franco, España y la II guerra mundial: entre el eje y la neutral­
idad (1995).
Enríe Ucelay Da Cal is Professor of History at the Universidad Autónoma de
Barcelona. His books include La Catalunya populista: imatge, cultura i
política en Vetapa republicana (1931-1939) (1982).