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El genio de la raza; The genius of la raza. Cervantes' conmemorations in the early 20th Century: national and transnational forces; Le génie de la raza. Les commémorations cervantines au début du xxe siècle, du national au transnational: Las conmemoraciones cervantinas a comienzos del siglo xx, entr...
In: Mélanges de la Casa de Velazquez, Heft 50-2, S. 67-90
ISSN: 2173-1306
'Seeds of Spain': Scouting, Monarchy and National Construction, 1912–1931
In: European history quarterly, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 226-247
ISSN: 1461-7110
The official Spanish branch of the international Boy Scout movement, the Exploradores de España, offers an instructive example of a nationalist association in Spain in the first third of the twentieth century. This article adopts a comparative perspective and studies the Exploradores discourses and practices, the association's founders and leaders, the scouts' publications and activities, as well as the organization's internal conflicts and evolution between 1912 and 1931. As in Britain and many other countries, the movement was endorsed by the royal family and led by military officers and middle-class men – representatives of monarchist civil society. It shared nationalist and regeneracionista (from regenerationism) values, as an agent of nationalization throughout Spanish territory. Like other Boy Scout movements in Europe and the Americas, it pursued the goal of making good patriots, with a knowledge of and ready to defend their fatherland: young hidalgos, the Spanish equivalent of the British gentlemen. Hence this study also explores the gender aspects of Boy Scout ideals. Initially, the Spanish scouts were troubled by an intense religious conflict, which was won by Catholic sectors, so their nationalism became deeply conservative. During the 1920s, the movement was instrumental in the nation-building projects of different governments, especially under the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera (1923–1930). In short, it can be considered one of the main nationalizing agents during this key period in modern Spanish history, and belies the image of supposed passivity and a lack of interest in national construction among Spain's ruling elites.
Introduction: Approaching Spanish National Identity from the Grassroots
In: European history quarterly, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 199-203
ISSN: 1461-7110
Pamela Beth Radcliff, La España contemporánea. Desde 1808 hasta nuestros días
In: Mélanges de la Casa de Velazquez, Heft 49-2
ISSN: 2173-1306
Republicanismo de Cátedra ; Academic Republicanism
Reseña de: Suárez Cortina, Manuel: Los caballeros de la razón. Cultura institucionista y democracia parlamentaria en la España liberal, Santander, Genueve Ediciones, 2019
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Academic Republicanism ; Republicanismo de cátedra
Review of Suárez Cortina, Manuel: Los caballeros de la razón. Cultura institucionista y democracia parlamentaria en la España liberal, Santander, Genueve Ediciones, 2019. ; Reseña de: Suárez Cortina, Manuel: Los caballeros de la razón. Cultura institucionista y democracia parlamentaria en la España liberal, Santander, Genueve Ediciones, 2019.
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Gemma Rubí, Francesc Espinet (eds.), Solidaritat Catalana i Espanya (1905-1909)
In: Mélanges de la Casa de Velazquez, Heft 42-1, S. 310-312
ISSN: 2173-1306
Political Clientelism, Elites, and Caciquismo in Restoration Spain (1875—1923)
In: European history quarterly, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 417-441
ISSN: 1461-7110
This article focuses on the substantial academic literature on caciquismo — the proliferation of clientelist practices by local notables or caciques — in Restoration Spain (1875—1923). Caciquismo is generally considered to be the key problem in the political behaviour of Spaniards and the evolution of the Spanish political system in the Liberal era. The article shows the central relevance of caciquismo in contemporary political analysis and criticism, and the different interpretations of early historiography on the subject. It consists mainly of an overview of the prevailing historiographical tendencies — here called 'new political history' and'agrarian social history' — in the study of caciquismo, especially their opposite conceptions of caciquismo as some kind of political clientelism and their descriptions of political elites and the connections between political and economic powers. It is argued that these tendencies share a common language and conclusions which facilitate comparisons with similar phenomena in other countries. The article includes some hints of this comparative analysis, and, finally, it suggests some paths of research which may be followed in the future.
Book Review: Isabel II: No se puede reinar inocentemente
In: European history quarterly, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 319-320
ISSN: 1461-7110
El conde de Romanones y el caciquismo en Castilla (1888-1923)
Este trabajo analiza el fenómeno del caciquismo en la España de la Restauración a través de un caso significativo, el del Conde de Romanones. Este personaje liberal dominó la vida política de la provincia de Guadalajara durante más de cuarenta años a través de la creación y el sostenimiento de una clientela de notables. En un contexto rural, se sirvió de relaciones familiares y económicas, del reparto de los recursos administrativos y de la manipulación del fraude electoral para sostener su poder, que sólo la Iglesia pudo tímidamente desafiar al final del período. ; This essay studies political clientelism -known as caciquismo in Restoration Spain- through a relevant case: that of the Count of Romanones, a liberal minister. He ruled the Castilian province of Guadalajara, a rural district, for more than forty years. His power was based on kin and economic relations, distribution of public resources and electoral fraud. The Romanonist clique controlled almost all political life, and only the Church was able to challenge its monopoly at the end of the period.
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Teoría del clientelismo y estudio de la política caciquil
In: Revista de estudios políticos, Heft 89, S. 191-224
ISSN: 0048-7694
Centennial fever: transnational Hispanic commemorations and Spanish nationalism
In: Studies in Latin American and Spanish history volume 10
"Commemorations that shaped major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century are full of centennials and anniversaries that elaborate and renew the Spanish national mythology. In Centennial Fever Javier Moreno-Luzón, one of the most prominent Spanish historians of his generation, studies the milestones that defined transnational dimensions of celebration at the beginning of the 20th century including the Peninsular War, the first Spanish Constitution, the independence of Latin American States, the "discovery" of the Pacific Ocean and the death of Miguel de Cervantes and the publication of Don Quixote of La Mancha. Through these truly global events, a cultural community is created, called "Hispanoamerica" or "La Raza", on which Spanish nationalism has become dependent"--