Book/Printed Material Rethinking the history of democracy in Spain

Title

• Rethinking the history of democracy in Spain

Summary

• "Focusing on the processes of political socialisation and democratisation that took place in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book brings together specialists who propose the need to rethink the contemporary history of democracy in Spain to build a new narrative. To do so, the authors go down to the local level, where they are able to trace a political culture that forged the foundations of a process of political "modernization" much more complex than what conventional historiography has conveyed, even though it was not always transferred institutionally to the national level. The idea of a rural Spain that was backward, apolitical, violent and unprepared for democracy gives way to a more interesting history which, while recognising the peculiarities of the country and the important limitations to democracy, shows examples that could help build a new narrative closer those of other neighbouring countries. Aimed at contemporary historians interested in Spain and Europe, the book also addresses the debates faced by other social scientists on the concept of democracy. This dialogue between history, sociology and political science is particularly present in a special final chapter featuring a discussion of democracy and its application to Spanish history"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Herrera González de Molina, Antonio, editor
• Acosta, Francisco, editor

Created / Published

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Contents

• Introduction : the (not so) exceptional history of democracy in contemporary Spain / Antonio Herrera and Francisco Acosta -- Municipalism and democratization in modern Spanish history / Pamela Radcliff -- Following in the tracks of democracy to reinterpret the history of the twentieth century in Spain / Antonio Herrera and John Markoff -- Democracy and political action in southern Spain, 1848-1874 / Guy Thomson -- Democracy and social protest in rural Andalusia in the nineteenth century : notes on a process of political modernization / Francisco Acosta Ramírez -- Republican democracy in the southern periphery of Spain : the province of Cordoba (1885-1919) / Ángel Duarte Montserrat -- The projection of Spanish liberalism overseas : pueblos de indios and citizenship in Mexico and Peru / Claudia Guarisco -- Modernisation and democratisation in Mediterranean countries / Luigi Musella -- Republican political mobilisation of the working classes in southern Portugal : the District of Évora between 1908 and 1915 / Jesús Ángel Redondo Cardeñoso -- The history of Spanish democracy under debate / Robert Fishman, Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Joe Foweraker, Florencia Peyrou, and Salvador Cruz.

Headings

• -  Democracy--Spain--History
• -  Spain--Politics and government--19th century
• -  Spain--Politics and government--20th century

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• JN8111

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2023033825

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2023033825

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

• epub
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2023033825

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