Changing Social Environments in Spain: Families, New Solidarities and Hierarchical Breakdown (16th-20th Centuries)

ISBN-13: 9783631865781 / Angielski

Francisco Chac?n Jimenez

Opis

Several theoretical proposals about social and familial change in Spain in the transition from the Ancien Régime to the modern age are presented. The transition from the patriarchal to the conjugal family explains continuity and change in the context of new social relations that value individual merit.

Spis treści

List of abbreviations - Francisco Chacón Jiménez (University of Murcia) Introduction. Families and social change. A new approach to Spanish history (circa mid- 18th- circa mid- 20th century) - José Pablo Blanco Carrasco (University of Extremadura) Chapter 1. Primitive individualism. Family roots of early modern individualism in Spain - Francisco García González (University of Castilla- La Mancha), Jesús Manuel González Beltrán (University of Cádiz)Chapter 2. Families and social trajectories. Some research results from south- central Spain, 18th- 19th centuries - Máximo García Fernández (University of Valladolid), Juan Manuel Bartolomé Bartolomé (University of León) Chapter 3. Appearances and family consumption in interior Castile (1500- 1850) - José María Imízcoz Beunza (University of Basque Country) Chapter 4. The political and cultural class of Enlightened reformism. Avant- garde networks, reform, and resistance in 18th- century Spain - Francisco Chacón Jiménez (University of Murcia), Juan Hernández Franco (University of Murcia), Antonio Irigoyen López (University of Murcia) Chapter 5. Explaining social change through marriage, family, and kinship. Circa 1750- circa early 20th century

O autorze

Francisco Chacón Jiménez is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the
University of Murcia. He has carried out studies and research stays at different
universities and higher research centers in Europe and Latin America. His areas of
interest include social history, family history, and local history.