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La nacionalización de las masas en el primer Maeztu (1898-1904)
No full textLa crisis de 1898 fue, ante todo, una crisis de identidad nacional, lo que se puso de relieve no sólo con la emergencia de los nacionalismos periféricos, sino en las profundas deficiencias del proceso de “nacionalización de las masas”. En la obra del joven Ramiro de Maeztu, el problema de España iba a cobrar sentido concreto en el análisis de las relaciones sociales, políticas y económicas en la subdesarrollada sociedad española finisecular. En la primera etapa de su larga trayectoria intelectual, Maeztu aspiró a ser el teórico de una nueva España, de una transformación de la sociedad española en el sentido y la lógica de un nacionalismo proyectivo y moderno, garante de su consolidación como proyecto nacional unitario, al igual que de su progreso social y económico. De ahí su interés por el logro de la “nacionalización de las masas”, a través de la educación, del arte, la literatura, etc
Difficult Years in the Ayuntamientos, 1969-1979. The Transition to Democracy in Spanish Municipalities
No full textThe Spanish transition from an authoritarian regime, to a democratic political system in the 1970s has been widely researched. The dominant approach in research thus far has centered in the \u27Madrid\u27 perspective, the process of democratization is explained based on decisions taken by actors at the \u27center\u27. Franco\u27s Spain was a highly centralized State, following the model of the nineteenth century liberal state, which kept the local and municipal levels of the administration in a very dependent position with virtually no autonomy or agency. Nevertheless, local levels of government were closest to demands from Spanish society. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how such a centralized State evolved in the 1970s, focusing on municipal governments in Spain during the period of transition and how those municipalities responded to pressure from above and from below .
This paper focuses on a case study of Seville in the period between the death of General Franco in 1975 and the first local elections in 1979. Aside from the role played by municipalities, civil governors (gobernadores civiles) at the provincial level provided a key tool for democratization which we will analyse here. As the highest governmental authorities in each province, governors were able to control the democratization process either in cooperation with local authorities or, in case of conflict, enforcing the orders of the central government
¿Para cuando un debate histórico sin prejuicios? A propósito de la reseña de Samuel Pierce sobre El Precio de la Exclusión. La política durante la Segunda República.
No full textReview of: Bryan Givens, \u3ci\u3eJudging Maria de Macedo: A Female Visionary and the Inquisition in Early Modern Portugal\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: David Howarth, \u3ci\u3eThe Invention of Spain: Cultural Relations between Britain and Spain 1770-1870\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: Fabio López Lázaro, \u3ci\u3eThe Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco, \u3ci\u3eOrder and Chivalry: Knighthood and Citizenship in Late Medieval Castile\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: Michael E. Chapman, \u3ci\u3eArguing Americanism. Franco lobbyists, Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy and the Spanish Civil War\u3c/i\u3e
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