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Founders of the Future
In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists, educators, and politicians appropriated the new economies of industrial production—particularly its emphasis on the human capacity to transform reality through energy and work—to produce new conceptual frameworks that changed their vision of the future. These influences soon appeared in plans to enhance the nation’s productivity, justify systems of class stratification and labor exploitation, or suggest state organizational improvements. This fresh look at canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors offers close readings of their work as it reflected the complexity of Spain’s process of modernization.
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe
'Democratization' is a concept often used in academic book titles, yet not many of them deal with the initial breakthrough of democratization. This research companion applies a comparative approach to analyzing debates in a number of countries. It discusses the politics, concepts and histories involved in European democratization as a complex of changes that has altered the conditions of political action and debate in the continent for the past two centuries.
Popular Political Participation and the Democratic Imagination in Spain
This book addresses the changing relationships among political participation, political representation, and popular mobilization in Spain from the 1766 protest in Madrid against the early Bourbon reforms until the citizen revolution of 1868 that first introduced universal suffrage and led to the ousting of the monarchy. Popular Participation and the Democratic Imagination in Spain shows that a notion of the “crowd” internally dividing the concept of “people” existed before the advent of Liberalism, allowing for the enduring subordination of popular participation to representation in politics. In its wider European and colonial American context, the study analyzes semantic changes in ...
Key Metaphors for History
This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in historiography and public discourse, the book identifies some of the key metaphorical resources employed by historians, politicians, and journalists to represent time, history, memory, the past, the present, and the future and examines a selection of analytical concepts of a temporal nature, built upon unmistakeably metaphorical foundations, such as modernity, event, process, revolution, crisis, progress, decli...
The Educated Woman
The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women’s higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual difference in these debates, the book also pays attention to the variety of ways in which contemporary feminists negotiated and reconstituted conceptions of the female mind and its relationship to the body. While recognising similarities, Rowold shows how in each country the higher education debates and the underlying conceptions of women’s nature were shaped by distinct historical contexts.
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe
'Democratization' is a concept often used in academic book titles, yet not many of them deal with the initial breakthrough of democratization. This research companion presents an alternative view to the widespread assumption that Western democracies should be the normative reference for the study of democratization elsewhere. Rather, it questions the universal validity of such an assumption by searching the history of European politics and by paying specific attention to the struggles of democratization accomplished outside Western Europe. The authors apply a comparative approach to analyzing debates in the primary sources in a number of countries and languages and situate the results into a broader European context. Focusing on European democratization from different historical and analytical perspectives, they discuss the politics, concepts and histories involved in democratization as a complex of changes that has altered the conditions of political action and debate in the continent for the past two centuries.
Reclaiming al-Andalus
Reclaiming al-Andalus focuses on the construction of the scholarly discipline of Orientalist studies in Spain. Special attention is paid to the impact that the elaboration of a series of historical interpretations of the legacy left by Muslim and Jewish culture in Spain had over the writing of national history in the period of the Bourbon Restoration. A historiographical account of Spains Orientalism tackles the problematized issues that both Arabist and Hebraist scholars sought to address. Orientalist scholarship thereby became inextricably linked to different interpretations of the historical shaping of Spanish national identity. Political circumstances of the day impacted on the approach ...
El mundo en movimiento
"Revolución" es un concepto fundamental en la experiencia política moderna y contemporánea. Si bien hoy en día parece haber perdido la potencia política que tuvo durante los últimos dos siglos, lo cierto es que sin este concepto tendríamos dificultades para poder expresar y entender experiencias, expectativas, estados de cosas y procesos sociales significativos tanto del pasado como del presente. Sin embargo, esto no siempre fue así. Como todo concepto, revolución también tiene una historia cuya comprensión requiere atender a la vez a sus aspectos lingüísticos y sociopolíticos. El libro, que se elaboró con esta premisa como punto de partida, reúne un conjunto de trabajos de h...
Menéndez Pelayo y Juan Valera en el Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Americano
Al no haber sido reivindicada la autoría de las voces por sus autores, y basado en un minucioso análisis estilístico comparativo, se abre el camino para la reflexión: ¿cuál fue su papel en esa gigantesca empresa educativa?, ¿cuántas entradas llevan su impronta?, ¿podemos atribuirles de forma sistemática todas y cada una de estas entradas literarias?, ¿figuran de verdad al principio de cada volumen los nombres de todos los que colaboraron en ellos? Tales son los interrogantes que ha de plantearse quien desee adentrarse en los arcanos de una aventura editorial de la que se sabe aún muy poco.
Dibujar discursos, construir imaginarios. Cabeceras de prensa ilustrada con caricaturas y discurso visual (1836-1874)
El progreso continuo de la visualidad en el mundo de la prensa, experimentado a la lo largo del siglo XIX, tiene una de sus mejores expresiones en las cabeceras de las publicaciones periódicas. Si bien el empleo de la sátira o el humor en la prensa como recurso comunicativo es muy temprano, la aparición de la imagen se produce más tardíamente por las dificultades técnicas que ello implica. De hecho, su avance a lo largo del siglo XIX discurrió de forma paralela a como pudieron incorporarse las diferentes técnicas de ilustración, desde los grabados iniciales a la exitosa irrupción de la cromolitografía que en el caso español se incorpora en el contexto del Sexenio democrático (18...
