Respectable Professionals; The Origins of the Liberal Professions in Nineteenth-Century Spain

ISBN-13: 9781800794504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 414 str.

Claudio Canaparo; Raquel S?nchez; David Mart?nez-Vilches

Opis

Respectable Professionals contains contributions about the birth of new professions and the modernization of working practices in old trades in nineteenth-century Spain. The authors consider that professionalism and respectability were the most relevant elements which structured the bourgeois society in the nineteenth century.

Spis treści

Contents: David Martínez-Vilches and Raquel Sánchez: History and Sociology of Professions: An Introductory Approach - Renewed Professions - Darina Martykánová and Juan Pan- Montojo: Between the State and the Market: Engineers in Nineteenth-Century Spain - Manuel Amador González Fuertes: The Century of Lawyers: The Making of Social Standing of Legal Professions in Spain (1789-1868) - Professionals of Warfare - Pablo Ortega- del- Cerro: Profession with Honour: Modernization and Legitimation of the Naval Officer Corps (c. 1800-1870) - Diego Cameno Mayo and Jaime Tribaldos Milla: The Nineteenth- Century Soldier: The Professionalization of the Army - Healthcare Professionals - Víctor M. Núñez-García: A Physician and a Gentleman: Individual Dimension of the Collective Pursuit of Social Standing - Carmen González Canalejo and Rubén Mirón-González: The Healthcare Middle Class: Female Professions and Patriarchy (1856-1931) - Literary and Artistic Professionals - Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos: Towards Respectability: Ejercicio cómico and the Acting Profession - Ainhoa Gilarranz- Ibáñez: «Art Is Confused with Trade»: The Defence of the Painter as a Profession in the Spanish Fine Arts (1833-1868) - Raquel Sánchez: Journalism: A Profession for Men of Letters (1820-1920) - Teaching Professionals - Eduardo Higueras Castañeda: Education in the Public Sphere: The Construction of the Reputation of Primary Teachers in Mid- Nineteenth-Century Spain - Cristina Del Prado Higuera: Professionalization of Female Teachers in the Nineteenth Century - Other Professionals - David Martínez-Vilches: An Anti-liberal Profession in Modern Society: The Parish Priest (1833-1868) - David San Narciso: Merchants to Businessmen: The Professionalization of Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Spain.

O autorze

Raquel Sánchez is Professor of Modern History in the Faculty of Geography and History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has specialized in the cultural and political history of nineteenth-century Spain. She is the researcher-in-charge of the research project which supports this book. David Martínez-Vilches is a researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has focused on religious history and currently works on his doctoral dissertation about the religious entourage of the Spanish court during the reign of Isabel II.