Spanish identity in the age of nations

José Álvarez-Junco

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780719075797
• eBook ISBN: 9781847796837
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Spanish identity in the age of nations offers the first comprehensive account in any language of the formation and development of Spanish national identity from ancient times to the present. Much has been written on French, British and German nationalism, but remarkably little has been published on Spanish nationalism. Paradoxically, even in Spain there is much more on Basque, Catalan and other regional nationalisms than on Spanish identity. As a result, this study fills an enormous gap in the literature on Spanish history.This book traces the emergence and evolution of an initial collective identity within the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the end of the ancien regime based on the Catholic religion, loyalty to the Crown and Empire. The adaptation of this identity to the modern era, beginning with the Napoleonic Wars and the liberal revolutions, forms the crux of this study. None the less, the book also embraces the highly contested evolution of the national identity in the twentieth century, including both the Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship. Álvarez-Junco´s pioneering study was awarded both the National Prize for Literature in Spain and the Fastenrath Prize by the Spanish Royal Academy

Index

Absolutism 109, 162, 206, 224–234, 247

See also Fernando VII

Acuña, Hernando de 26

Adrian VI, Pope 27, 217

Afrancesamiento (‘Frenchifying’) 83–84, 99, 104, 163, 220–224

Agustina de Aragón 58

Alameda, Cirilo de la 228, 234

Alarcón, Pedro A. de 302, 304

Alba, Duke of 27

Albéniz, Isaac 185, 186

Alcalá Galiano, Antonio 98, 126, 132, 136, 191, 298, 299, 367

Alcocer, Pedro de 30

Aldana, Fernando de 132

Aldrete, Bernardo 52

Alexander of Russia 121

Alexander the Great 69

Alfonso II 17

Alfonso III 16

Alfonso VI 17, 18

Alfonso X, el Sabio 20, 26, 129, 262, 263

Alfonso XII 275, 280, 341

Alfonso XIII 187, 337, 342

Almanzor 17

Almeida Garret, Joâo B. de 313

Alonso, Celsa 182

Alvarado, Francisco, el Filósofo Rancio 238–240, 255, 259, 269, 275

Álvarez Mendizábal, Juan 255, 313

Amado, Manuel 205, 250, 258

Amador de los Ríos, José 144, 167, 260–262, 279

Amarillas, Marquis of (Pedro A. Girón) 63

Amat, Félix 222

Ancien Regime 121, 124, 206

Andalucía 57, 183

Anderson, Benedict 66, 157, 206, 208

Andrés, Juan 78, 159

Angulo, José R. 140

Anjou, Duke of see Felipe V

Anthropology, Physical 188–189

See Races, racism

Antonio, Nicolás 129, 159

Aragón 21, 26, 52, 58, 60, 111, 150

Aranda, Count of (Pedro P. Abarca) 79, 220, 341

Aranzadi, Telesforo de 188

Archaeology 186–188

Architecture 189

Argantonio, legendary king of Spain 54

Argüelles, Agustín 101, 102, 146

Aribau, Buenaventura C. 167

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• I The origins of the nation
• II The nationalisation of culture
• III Conservative opinion: between religion and the nation
• IV The successes and failures of Spanish nationalism in the nineteenth century
• Bibliography
• Index