{"product_id":"modern-spain-9781405186797","title":"Modern Spain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Spain: 1808 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive overview of Spanish history from the Napoleonic era to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlaces a large emphasis on Spain''s place within broader European and global history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe chronological political narrative is enriched by separate chapters on long term economic, social and cultural developments\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThis presentation of modern Spanish history incorporates the latest thinking on key issues of modernity, social movements, nationalism, democratization and democracy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is an instructive synthesis of the history of Spain over 200 years. \u003ci\u003eModern Spain \u003c\/i\u003enot only debunks the old 'failure narrative' but also complicates the larger European narrative, by undermining the very idea of a European model. The monograph merits a place among the best single volume analyses of the thorny history of contemporary Spain and will be very helpful for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike.\" - \u003cb\u003eAlejandro Quiroga, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewcastle University \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efor \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies \u003c\/i\u003e(2018)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Maps xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations and Glossary of Foreign Terms xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Chronology of Spanish History, 1808–2016 xxii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: 1808–1868: The Era of the Liberal Revolution 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Spain in the “Age of Revolutions” 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpain in Europe and the World, 1780s–1820 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Snapshot of the Economy: Gradual Growth 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUneven Regional Development: Center\/Periphery Divide 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mediterranean Regional Network 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe North Atlantic Regional Network 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegional Networks of the Center 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemography: A Growth Pattern 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharacteristics of the Population: Occupation and Social Structure 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture and Community 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Crisis, 1808–1814 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDynastic Crisis 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWar and Resistance 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cortes of Cádiz and the Constitution of 1812 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Spanish “Constitutional Culture” 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe End of the Revolutionary Era 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Political Transformation: From the Old Regime to the Liberal State, 1814–1868 28\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Liberal Revolution in Comparative Context 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Major Players 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModerate and Progressive Parties 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Military and Pronunciamientos 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crown 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopular\/Local Mobilization 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCounter]revolution: Carlists 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Catholic Church 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology: From the Restoration of Absolutism to the Construction and Crisis of the Liberal State, 1814–1868 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1814–1833: The Restoration and Demise of the Absolutist State 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRestoration of Absolutism, 1814–1820 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Liberal “Trienio,” 1820–23 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturn to Absolutism, 1823–34 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1833–1845: The Construction of the Liberal State 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Carlist War 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModerate and Progressive Constitutions and Platforms 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Parameters of a Liberal Political, Juridical and Administrative Order, 1833–45 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1845–1868: The Liberal State: From Consolidation to Crisis 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Achievements and Limits of the Liberal Political Transformation 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: 1868–1923: The Emergence of Mass Politics 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Politics on the Margins of the Liberal State: From 1848 to the “Sexenio” (1868–1874) 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Mid]Nineteenth]century Popular Politics in Comparative Perspective 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Major Players 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarlists 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCuban Separatists 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocrats and Republicans 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Labor Movement and the First International 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First Democracy: The Sexenio, 1868–1874 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe September 1868 Revolution 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Democratic Monarchy (June 1869–February 1873) 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Republic (February 12, 1873–January 4, 1874) 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 A New Era of Liberal Politics: The Second Restoration, 1875–1898 67\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Restoration in Comparative Context: State,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNation, Empire and Democracy 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Multiple Faces of the Restoration Regime 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing a New Constitutional Regime: Antonio Cánovas del Castillo and the turno pacífico 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dark Side of the Turno: Electoral Fraud and Caciquismo 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvaluating the Constraints and Opportunities of Restoration Politics 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstraints on Political Liberties Imposed by the State 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Constraints and Opportunities: The View “From Below” 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe “Disaster” of 1898: The Start of a New Era? 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Restoration Politics: From Fin de Siècle to Postwar Crisis, 1898–1923 83\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Early Twentieth]Century Spanish Politics in Comparative Context 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1898–1914: Efforts to Reform the Regime “From Above” 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Conservative Party and Antonio Maura 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Liberal Party and José Canalejas 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1914–23: From Elite Reform to Mass Mobilization: Alternative Political Projects 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First World War in Spain 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Turno to Fragmentation of the Liberal and Conservative Parties, 1913–23 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMovements on the Right 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatholic Mobilization 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBasque Nationalism (PNV\/CNV) 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMauristas\/Spanish Nationalism 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMovements on the Left 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocialists (PSOE\/UGT) 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarcho]syndicalists (CNT) 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMovements of the Center 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepublicanism 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatalanism\/LLiga 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTurning Points in the Crisis of the Restoration, 1917–23 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Democratic Assembly Movement, 1917 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe La Canadiense Strike, 1919 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Last Effort at Reform “From Above,” 1920–23? 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Long View: Social, Economic and Cultural Change, 1830–1930 105\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Economic and Demographic Evolution: 1830–1930 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpain in the World Economy, 1830–1930 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Economic and Population Trends: Gradual Growth and Structural Evolution 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Agricultural Sector 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Industrial Sector 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUneven Regional Development: Center\/Periphery Divide 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Missed Opportunities or Inherent Constraints? 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Culture and Society, 1830–1930 122\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Social and Cultural Evolution in Comparative Perspective 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Social Order: Evolution and Diversity 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Hybrid Elite 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Urban Middle Classes 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Popular Classes or “el pueblo” 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRural Society 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociability and Identity: A Diverse and Evolving Cultural Landscape 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Urban Culture: Encoding Social Hierarchy in the Public Sphere 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Margins of Middle Class Culture: The Avant]Garde and the Modern Woman 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Popular Sociability and Mass Culture 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Catholic Church, Religion and Rural Society 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocal, Regional and National Cultures and Identities 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Dictatorship and Democracy, 1923–Present 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 The First Dictatorship: The Primo de Rivera Regime, 1923–1930 145\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Primo Regime in Comparative Perspective 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Coup to “Temporary” Dictatorship, 1923–1925 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElements of a New Kind of Dictatorship: The Civil Directory, 1925–1929 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor Relations 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNationalization Campaigns 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthoritarian Development 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnd of the Dictatorship, 1929–1930 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Transition to a Republic, 1930–1931 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 The Second Republic: 1931–1936 158\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Second Republic in Comparative Perspective 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeriodization: The Shifting Majority Coalitions of the Second Republic 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First Biennium (1931–1933): Pursuing a Center\/Left Majority Coalition 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Went Wrong with the First Biennium? 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMobilizing against the Coalition 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Disintegrating Majority Coalition 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Second Biennium, 1933–1935: Pursuing a Center\/Right Majority Coalition 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Went Wrong with the Second Biennium? 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMobilizing against the Coalition 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Unconsolidated Majority Coalition 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Popular Front, February–July 1936 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Went Wrong with the Popular Front? 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 The Civil War: 1936–1939 184\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Civil War in Comparative Perspective 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Military Coup to Civil War: The Summer of 1936 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rebel Forces in the Summer of 1936 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeology and Violence in Rebel Territory 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Loyalist Forces during the Summer of 1936 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevolution in Republican Territory 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eViolence in Republican Territory 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganizing for the Long War: The Republicans 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeign Aid 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconstructing a Republican State 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganizing for the Long War: The Nationalists 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing a “New State” 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeign Aid 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Military Stages of the War 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 The Second Dictatorship: The Franco Regime, 1939–1976 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Franco Regime in Comparative Perspective 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeriodization: The Stages of the Franco Dictatorship 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhase One, 1936–1945: Militarization, Fascist Influence and Extreme Repression 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhase II, 1945–1957: National Catholicism, Monarchist Restoration and International Integration 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhase III, 1957–1969: Authoritarian Development and Institutionalization 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhase IV, 1969–1975: Collapse of the Coalition and Death of the Dictator 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Economic, Social and Cultural Transformation, 1930s–1970s 230\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomy, Society and Culture in Comparative Perspective 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic and Demographic Trends 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe “Years of Hunger”: Deprivation, Disease and Death in the 1940s 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Economic Stagnation to Rapid Growth: 1950s–1970s 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructural shift from Agriculture to Industry and Service Sectors 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsumption and Population Trends 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUneven Benefits 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial and Cultural Trends 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociety and Culture in the Years of Hunger 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRupture and Restitution for Winners and Losers 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamily and Gender 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Church, Religion and Education 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Public Sphere: Associations and Sociability 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial and Cultural Evolution in the Growth Years: 1960s–1970s 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigration and Social Mobility 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversification of the Public Sphere 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Decline of “Tradition”: Youth, Gender and Religion 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 The Last Democratic Transition: 1976–1982 250\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transition to Democracy in Comparative Perspective 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrigins of the Transition: Favorable Factors vs. the 1930s 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Development 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeographic Location: Western Europe 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCivil Society Mobilization 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrancoist Elites: Reformers and the Bunker 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Institutional Transition: July 1976–December 1978 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElite Actors and the “Push from Below,” 1976–77 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe June 1977 Elections and Building Consensus Through “Pacts” 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Constitution of 1978 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Basque Exception 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Transition to Consolidation, 1978–1982 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutonomous Governments 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocal Governments 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeadership Crisis and Attempted Coup, 1981 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 1982 Election 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Democratic State and Social Transformation, 1982–2016 266\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Democratic Era in Comparative Perspective 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocratic government under PSOE leadership: 1982–1996 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutionalization and European Integration 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeo]Liberalism and Social Welfare 272\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe End of the PSOE Era 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Consolidation to Crispación: PP and PSOE alternation from 1996 to 2011 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Polarization 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eState\/Regional Polarization 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocratic Society 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2008–2016: Crisis and Uncertainty 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 336\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529337839959,"sku":"9781405186797","price":70.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405186797.jpg?v=1731875228","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-spain-9781405186797","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}