Search

In their quest to forge a national social imaginary or civic consciousness, Spanish Enlightenment reformers sought to redirect the loyalties and funds of Catholic citizens away from local religious confraternities and towards state projects of modernization. One key strategy involved deploying new registers of the religious concepts of "charity" and the "common good," making moral claims on the citizenry to render material assistance for the prosperity of their fellow citizens and the nation writ large. Catholics who resisted these efforts insisted on the embodied, relational foundations of these ideas (rooted in Thomistic thought) as well as the sanctity of the individual will. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Prudentia Iuris is the property of Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Historia y Sociedad (01218417) is the property of Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Economicas and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Paul Preston (Liverpool, 1946) has been professor in international history at the London School of Economics since 1991 and is the honorary president of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies. Renowned for his work on the Spanish Civil War and Francoist dictatorship, Preston's internationally acclaimed books include A People Betrayed (2020), The Last Days of the Spanish Republic (2016), The Spanish Holocaust (2012), The Spanish Civil War (2006), Doves of War: Four Women of Spain (2002), Comrades! Portraits from the Spanish Civil War (1999) and Franco: A Biography (1993). An English-language edition of his latest work Arquitectos del terror: Franco y los artífices del odio, published in Spanish in 2021, is due for publication in Autumn 2022. Preston was interviewed in January 2021 by Deborah Madden, a Leverhulme Trust research fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Preston offers intriguing insight into his research, discussing the politics of sexual violence, memory politics, research as a form of activism and his main regret as a historian. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Historia Constitucional is the property of Revista Historia Constitucional and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of História da Historiografia is the property of Sociedade Brasileira de Teoria e Historia da Historiografia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Historia y Politica: Ideas, Procesos y Movimientos Sociales is the property of Departamento De Historia del Pensamiento y de los Moviemientos Sociales y Politicos (Madrid) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Historia Constitucional is the property of Revista Historia Constitucional and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The article discusses the work of Spanish geographer and politician Fermín Caballero, with particular attention to his book "Fomento de la población rural." Caballero's study of the politics of rural populations in Spain during the 19th century is analyzed, including the political management of rural areas, the rural geography and agriculture of Spain and his concept of an enclosed farmstead. A brief history of Caballero's political activity, specifically in working for Queen Isabella II, is also provided.

Copyright of Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval is the property of Editorial UNED and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

There are many studies of elections under the Second Spanish Republic, some of them of great merit. Most, however, are narrow accounts lacking in contextualization, and fail to examine the broader history of parliamentary politics in Spain. The present article analyzes Republican democracy in its final phase — the months in which the Popular Front was in power — through an examination of the elections of May 1936, the last to be held in Spain until 1977. The comparison between the general elections of February 1936 and the partial elections of May, as well as the comparison with broader electoral history in Spain, reveals the rapid deterioration of parliamentary and electoral practice on the eve of the Civil War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article studies the use of cinema as an instrument of ideas in a specific context, in this case, its role in democratic transitions with the objective to present to the citizens a historical reinterpretation in order to dispute the current views of the official history of the authoritarian regimes. To demonstrate this, the political character of motion pictures from Spain and Mexico during the political-institutional transformation will be analyzed. Factors like the demystification of some historical events, the screen presence of political actors traditionally ignored and the critique of certain values linked to authoritarianism become examples of the capacity of the seventh art as a space of political action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research interest of American historians in the Spanish Civil War between 1998 and 2007 has been quite little. This may lead one to conclude that they operate in a languid way. However, their research works are generally of good quality and sometimes of innovative character. Frequently, they examine the war from an American and international perspective which provides useful complement to those of Spanish origin. Either because of the limited nature of the new generation or new historical trends that are broading the field of studies, American studies have been limited to a handful of topics some of them from a social or cultural perspective. Most common of these in political history, there are also a lot on the role of women. One can conclude that American hispanism enjoys an excellent historiographical health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Christian Democrat parties have never enjoyed much success on their own in Spain at national level. They existed only briefly before the Civil War in the 1930s and failed to make much of an impact after democracy was restored following the death of General Franco in 1975. However, politicians with a Christian Democrat background featured prominently in the centrist and right-wing alliances that emerged during the democratic transition and in the relaunch of the centre-right as the Partido Popular (PP) in 1989. Since then, PP leader José María Aznar has used the Christian Democrat element in the PP to develop close links with the European People's Party (EPP) and increase his own international standing, transforming both the EPP and the Christian Democrat International into organizations that reflected his own particular centrist views. In the process, Christian Democracy lost its original ideological edge, becoming just another strand in the gradual configuration of a new democratic right. Traditionalists would say that it simply lost its soul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]