This book challenges the view of Spain as backward, 'timeless' and
isolated from wider European movements; impervious to modernity. By
tracing the diffusion of democratic ideas and republican
associations in the towns and villages of eastern Andalucia between
1854 and 1875, Spain is shown to have shared fully in Europe's
mid-nineteenth century democratic enthusiasm. Small town Democrats
captured the imagination hundreds of thousands of rural people who
viewed politics as an esoteric pastime occupying only the wealthy
and the educated. They achieved this by using the press for
delivering their message, by organizing clandestine Carbonari
societies for extending their support and fighting elections, by
preparing for summer (mostly abortive) popular insurrections, and
by dramatising the analogy between the Italian Risorgimento and
Spain's own regeneration. Hence, during the two decades of
political conflict that preceded the 'Glorious' Revolution of
September 1868, Spain moved from patrician to mass politics. The
book explores this political awakening by tracing the heated
rivalry between two neighbours from Granada's second city of Loja,
the centre of the region of study. The lives of Conservative
chieftain General Ramon Maria Narvaez, Duke of Valencia, appointed
seven times as First Minister by Queen Isabel, and Rafael Perez del
Alamo, a veterinarian blacksmith who in July 1861 led Spain's first
civilian 'socialist' mass uprising, exemplify the two competing
visions of political modernity that divided Spain during nineteenth
Century, and had such tragic consequences for the twentieth.
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