1st Edition

Rethinking the History of Democracy in Spain

Edited By Antonio Herrera, Francisco Acosta Copyright 2024
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: The (Not So) Exceptional History of Democracy in Contemporary Spain

Antonio Herrera and Francisco Acosta

Part 1: Rethinking Democratization in Spain from Local Perspective

1. Municipalism and Democratization in Modern Spanish History

Pamela Radcliff

2. Following in the Tracks of Democracy to Reinterpret the History of the Twentieth Century in Spain

Antonio Herrera and John Markoff

Part 2: Social Mobilisation and Democracy in Southern Spain

3. Democracy and Political Action in Southern Spain, 1848–1874

Guy Thomson

4. Democracy and Social Protest in Rural Andalusia in the Nineteenth Century: Notes on a Process of Political Modernization

Francisco Acosta Ramírez

5. Republican Democracy in the Southern Periphery of Spain: The Province of Cordoba (1885–1919)

Ángel Duarte Montserrat

Part 3: Municipalism, Rural World and Democracy Outside Spain

6. The Projection of Spanish Liberalism Overseas: Pueblos de Indios and Citizenship in Mexico and Peru

Claudia Guarisco

7. Modernisation and Democratisation in Mediterranean Countries

Luigi Musella

8. Republican Political Mobilisation of the Working Classes in Southern Portugal: The District of Évora Between 1908 and 1915

Jesús Ángel Redondo Cardeñoso

Special Epilogue

9. The History of Spanish Democracy Under Debate

Robert Fishman, Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Joe Foweraker, Florencia Peyrou, and Salvador Cruz

Biography

Antonio Herrera, is a senior lecturer of contemporary history at University of Granada (Spain). His areas of research include social mobilisation, rural and peasant conflicts, and the making of democratic political cultures in contemporary Spain.

Francisco Acosta, is a senior lecturer of contemporary history at University of Córdoba (Spain). Interested in issues related to Franco's repression and the recovery of democratic memory in Spain, he is currently co-leading a research project on democracy and the rural world in contemporary Andalusia.