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This paper analyzes the first tourists' guidebooks on Spain published between 1840 and 1930. The aim is to highlight the contrast between the socioeconomic vision of the country reflected in the foreign guidebooks aimed at the Anglo-Saxon public, where certain stereotypes maintained a notable weight, and the vision offered by the little-known Spanish guidebooks, aimed at the national tourists, which did give an account of the transformation of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The birth of the Revista Católica de Cuestiones Sociales (1895-1930) coincided with the true "take-off" of Spanish Social Catholicism, which had a notable relevance at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. It was one of the most important and long-lasting journals of those that spread the Social Doctrine of the Church in Spain, and a large part of the Catholic intelligentsia of the time would participate in it. The objective of this work is to analyze how the great social encyclical of Leo XIII, the Rerum Novarum (1891), were received in the journal during its early years (1895-1916), with some occasional allusion to the Graves de Communi (1901). Although with nuances derived from the coexistence of "fundamentalist" visions with other more "advanced" ones, in this periodical publication a fairly traditional and conservative reading of both texts was generally made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares the economic image of seventeenth-century Spain given by foreign travellers with that offered by the arbitristas, examining the principal similarities and differences. Specifically, it analyses the following issues: the consideration of the natural resources base, the vision of national character and its relation to productive activities, and the perception of the economic situation and the causes of backwardness. The aim is to contrast the views of those who were thinking 'from the inside' about the causes of the evident decline of the country, with the free and uncensored gaze of foreign visitors, who, despite the obvious constraints and limitations, tended to focus on the most striking and different aspects they found compared to the reality of their own countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article looks at the utopian novel as a popular literary genre in Spain during the late 1800s, focusing on the short novel "La Nueva Utopía," by Ricardo Mella. The model of social and socio-economic organization presented in "La Nueva Utopía" is compared to those found in "Looking Backward," by Edward Bellamy, "Freiland," by Theodor Hertzka, and "News from Nowhere," by William Morris. Mella's model of anarchist collectivism is discussed. Socialist ideals found in literature during the end of the nineteenth century are reviewed.