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Cambio de siglo
Contenido: Los intelectuales en 1900 (E. Storm). - Viejas y nuevas visiones del caciquismo espanol (J. Moreno Luzon). - Los intelectuales, el clero y el pueblo (J. de la Cueva Merino). - Regenerando a la mujer, regenerando Espana (Elizabeth Munson). - Respuestas intelectuales al 'problema de Espana' a fin de siglo (D. Nunez). - Azorin: periodista politico (E. Inman Fox). - Antonio Machado, deseo y frustacion (Fr. Peyregne). - Hacia otra Espana: hacia un compromiso total (R. Lefere). - La contradiccion como arma: Ortega y Gasset y el concepto espanol de la modernidad (J. Goode)."
Political Religion Beyond Totalitarianism
The success of fascist and communist regimes has long been explained by their ability to turn political ideology into a type of religion. These innovative essays explore the notion that all forms of modern mass-politics, including democracies, need a form of sacralization to function.
Making Modern Spain
In this elegantly written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the movement toward secularization in Spain. Focusing on the social experience, this book probes the tensions between traditionalism and liberalism that influenced public opinion of the clergy, sacred buildings, and religious orders. The writings of Cecilia Böhl de Faber (Fernán Caballero), Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Benito Pérez Galdós, and José María de Pereda addressed conflicts between modernizing forces and the Catholic Church about the place of religion and its signifiers in Spanish society. Foregrounding expropriation (government confiscation of civil and ecclesiastical property) and exclaustration (the expulsion of religious communities), and drawing on archival research, the history of disentailment, cultural theory, memory studies, and sociology, Alfante demonstrates how Spain’s liberalizing movement profoundly influenced class mobility and faith among the populace.
The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico
The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts. Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political narrative, Smith’s study begins with the late Bourbon period and moves through the early republic, the mid-nineteenth-century Reforma, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution, when the Mixtecs rejected Zapatista offers of land distribution, ending with the armed religious uprising known as the “last Cristiada,” a desperate Cold War bid to rid the region of impious “communist” governance. In recounting this long tradition of regional conservatism, Smith emphasizes the influence of religious belief, church ritual, and lay-clerical relations both on social relations and on political affiliation. He posits that many Mexican peasants embraced provincial conservatism, a variant of elite or metropolitan conservatism, which not only comprised ideas on property, hierarchy, and the state, but also the overwhelming import of the church to maintaining this system.
Republicanism and Anticlerical Nationalism in Spain
This book analyzes attempts by radical Spanish republicans to construct an anticlerical-nationalist vision of Spain, focusing in particular on the the mass production by the 'anticlertical industry' of newspapers, novels, poems, cartoons, posters, postcards and plays put out by republican muckrakers, journalists, and politicians.
Inventing the Recording
Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact. Through the analysis of a specific and unique national context, author Eva Moreda Rodríguez tells the stories of institutions and individuals in Spain and discusses the development of discourses and ideas in close connection with national concerns and debates, all while paying close attention to original recordings from this era. The book starts with the arrival in Spain of notices about Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877, followed by the first demonstrations of the invention (1878-1882) by scientists and showmen. These demonstrations ...
The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition
Designed to evaluate the paradigmatic view of the Spanish transition as an ideal model for political and social change, this new and innovative volume appraises Spain's movement to democracy from a variety of important perspectives.
Modern Spain
Modern Spain: 1808 to the Present is a comprehensive overview of Spanish history from the Napoleonic era to the present day. Places a large emphasis on Spain's place within broader European and global history The chronological political narrative is enriched by separate chapters on long term economic, social and cultural developments This presentation of modern Spanish history incorporates the latest thinking on key issues of modernity, social movements, nationalism, democratization and democracy
Destruir y proteger: el patrimonio histórico-artístico durante la Guerra Civil (1936-1939)
Durante la Guerra Civil (1936-1939) la integridad del patrimonio histórico-artístico español se vio seriamente amenazada como resultado de la conjunción de una serie de factores de carácter político, social, cultural y económico. El libro que aquí se presenta analiza tanto su destrucción y disgregación como las medidas desarrolladas para protegerlo y conservarlo a partir del estudio de las políticas culturales puestas en marcha por las autoridades republicanas y las fuerzas rebeldes. Sus diferentes concepciones sobre la cultura y su función social ayudan a explicar las diferencias existentes entre las políticas perfiladas en cada retaguardia y su grado de eficacia. Un aspecto en el que también resulta esencial el perfil y el grado de implicación de los hombres y mujeres que trabajaron en las labores de salvaguardia. Personas que, en muchos casos, pusieron en riesgo sus vidas y sus carreras con el único objetivo de preservar la herencia cultural española.
El Siglo Futuro. Un diario carlista en tiempos republicanos (1931-1936)
Durante la II República se asistió a la penúltima resurrección carlista, por la que trabajó una de sus piedras angulares, el rotativo El Siglo Futuro (1875-1936). Curtido en polémicas durante más de medio siglo que le valieron para la posteridad una proyección de signos oscurantistas, este diario experimentó entre 1931 y 1936 sucesivas metamorfosis no exentas de contradicciones. En este libro se estudia, además de la evolución de la empresa periodística, el papel del periódico en la construcción de la cultura política tradicionalista, de liderazgos como el de Manuel Fal Conde, las disensiones en el seno del carlismo o el discurso beligerante contra el régimen y su política laicizadora.
