Spain

Inventing the Nation

Carsten Humlebæk

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781441169556
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441102522
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Part of the successful 'Inventing the Nation' history series, this book provides an authoritative and compelling history of Spain in the modern period. Humlebæk places a strong emphasis on the construction of the Spanish national identity and looks at how this identity has emerged and survived amidst the tensions created by the competing, distinct regional identities that exist within the country. Language and language policy, decisive factors in the development of these tensions, are thoroughly examined as Carsten Humlebæk explores the history of Spain along with the very nature of what it is to be Spanish.

Beginning with the Napoleonic invasion and the annexation of Spain in 1808, Humlebæk traces Spain's political history through to the present day. He considers the impact of events like the Spanish Civil War and regimes like that of the Restoration on the Spanish sense of national identity before contemplating the future for Spain as a nation-state.

This book is the ideal volume for all students of history interested in the modern history of Spain.

Table of contents

• Cover
• #Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Acronyms
• 1 Prologue: From present-day Spain back to the origins
• 2 An old state in a new era (1808–33): Planting the seed of the nation
• 3 The liberal Spanish nation (1834–75): In search of a mass audience
• 4 The Restoration regime (1875–1923): The non-solution to the national problem(s)
• 5 Military dictatorship (1923–31): A solution to the nationalization of the masses?
• 6 The Second Spanish Republic (1931–9): The short-lived success of the liberal national project
• 7 The Civil War (1936–9): Military confrontation of the two national projects
• 8 The Franco regime (1939–75): Victory of the National-Catholic project
• 9 The death of Franco: Solution and postponement
• 10 The new democratic Spain: Mobilizing identities
• 11 The new European Spain: United and divisions forgotten?
• 12 The national holidays in democracy: Struggling national discourses
• 13 The second turnover: Consolidating democracy
• 14 Accommodating the past: Revisiting the historical master narrative
• 15 Accommodating nationalist pretensions: Is it possible?
• 16 Epilogue: Crisis and its effects on the national tensions
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright