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Part of the successful Inventing the Nation history series, this book provides an authoritative and compelling history of Spain in the modern period. Humlebaek places a strong emphasis on the construction of the Spanish national identity and looks at how this identity has emerged and survived amidst...

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Main Author: Humlebæk, Carsten (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Series:Inventing the nation.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: From present-day Spain back to the origins
  • Planting the Seed of the Nation in an Old State (1808-1833)
  • Spanish Liberal Nationalism in Search for a Mass Audience (1834-1875)
  • The Non-Solution to the National Problem(s) : The Restoration Regime (1875-1923)
  • Military Dictatorship as Solution to the Nationalization of the Masses? (1923-1931)
  • The 2nd Spanish Republic : The Short-lived Success of the Liberal National Project (1931-1939)
  • The Civil War (1936-1939)
  • The Franco Regime (1939-1975)
  • The Death of Franco as Solution and Postponement
  • Mobilising Identities in the New Democratic Spain
  • The New European Spain : United and Divisions Forgotten?
  • The Symbolic Struggle between National Discourses
  • Consolidating Democracy
  • Revisiting the Historical Master Narrative of Democratic Spain
  • Accommodating the Various Nationalist Pretensions in Spain : Is it Possible?
  • Epilogue: Crisis in Spain and its Effects on the National Tensions.