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Book SynopsisThis book presents several theoretical proposals about social and familial – but also
political and cultural – change in Spain in the transition from the Ancien Régime to
the modern age. The sociocultural reality of the Ancien Régime, based on inequality
and privilege, is redefined through kinship and, both horizontal and vertical, social
relations. In this way, the transition from the patriarchal to the conjugal family
explains continuity and change in the context of new social relations that value
individual merit, the accumulation of capital, and the decisive importance of feeling
and emotion.
Table of ContentsList 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
