Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain: The Building of the Nation-State, 1780-1931

ISBN-13: 9780367409906 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 228 str.

David San Narciso; Margarita Barral Martínez; Carolina Armenteros

Opis

Bringing together the work of top specialists and emerging scholars in the field, this volume is the first book-length study of the rapport between liberalism and the Spanish monarchy over the long nineteenth century in any language. This collection should appeal to academics, researchers and anyone interested in modern European history.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Part I: An Institution’s Political Dynamics;  1. The Mutations of the Spanish Monarchy, 1750–1868;  2. Spanish Modernity and the (Gendered) Monarchy: From Biography to History and Back to Biography;  3. Amadeo I: The Republican King?;  4. The Consolidation of the Constitutional Monarchical System (1874–1902);  5. The Two Monarchies of Alfonso XIII, 1902–1931;  Part II: Ritual, Staging, and Nationalisation;  6. The Problem of Ritual in the Spanish Post-Revolutionary Monarchical Fiction (1833–1868);  7. The Royal Family as a Symbolic Fiction: A Mixed Picture of New Forms of Legitimacy in Spain’s Liberal Monarchy (1843–1931);  8. The King on a Coin: Monarchy, State, and Nation through Nineteenth-Century Spanish Coins and Stamps;  9. The Pious Crown: The Monarchy’s Religious Devotions during the Reign of Isabel II;  10. The King’s Descent into the People’s Assembly: Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain’s Nineteenth-Century State Opening of Parliament Ceremony;  11. Royal Travels: The Modern Staging and Legitimation of the Spanish Monarchy, 1858–1931