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This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the history of
Spain, exploring key themes and events in four broad but not
necessarily rigid temporal categories: medieval, early modern,
nineteenth century and twentieth century. The volume situates
Spanish history firmly within the broader patterns unfolding across
the European continent, emphasizing Spain’s active participation
in the processes that determined the development of modern European
society. With chapters from leading scholars from both Spanish and
international universities, the book helps fill long-standing gaps
in European history. This handbook provides original contributions
on broad themes in Spanish history which are also accessible
syntheses of the most recent scholarship. Making the latest
research in Spanish history more widely accessible to an
international audience, The Routledge Handbook of Spanish History
is an essential reference point for students and scholars of Spain,
as well as those working in comparative European history.
Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic
conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book
engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates
nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus
able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating
each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia
emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where
revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain
where political ideologies have sought to impose their
interpretation of Catalan reality. This book situates Catalonia
within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from
pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an
important contribution to our understanding of nation-making.
Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic
conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book
engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates
nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus
able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating
each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia
emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where
revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain
where political ideologies have sought to impose their
interpretation of Catalan reality. This book situates Catalonia
within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from
pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an
important contribution to our understanding of nation-making.
As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed
by scholars as exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was
seen within Europe and beyond as a role model for successful
devolution which had much to teach other parts of the world. The
Spanish state seemed to be on a journey towards an authentic
federal order and was generally admired. However, the new century
has been marked by an ever-growing independence movement, with 47.8
per cent of Catalonia voting in favour of independence in September
2015. Pro-independence mobilization has produced a rupture in
political relations with the rest of Spain leading to a sovereignty
struggle with Madrid. This book explores how an accumulation of
long-, medium- and short-term factors have produced the current
situation and why the Spanish territorial model has been unable or
possibly, unwilling, to respond. The Catalan question is not purely
a Spanish problem: it has direct implications for the traditional
nation-state model, in Europe and beyond.
The purpose of this book is to address two principal questions:
'Was the concept of masculinity a topic of debate for the
Victorians?' and 'Why is Victorian literature full of images of
male deviance when Victorian masculinity is defined by discipline?'
In his introduction, Dowling defines Victorian masculinity in terms
of discipline. He then addresses the central question of why an
official ideal of manly discipline in the nineteenth century
co-existed with a literature that is full of images of male
deviance. In answering this question, he develops a notion of
'hegemonic deviance', whereby a dominant ideal of masculinity
defines itself by what it is not. Dowling goes on to examine the
fear of effeminacy facing Victorian literary men and the strategies
used to combat these fears by the nineteenth-century male novelist.
In later chapters, concentrating on Dickens and Thackeray, he
examines how the male novelist is defined against multiple images
of unmanliness. These chapters illustrate the investment made by
men in constructing male 'others', those sources of difference that
are constantly produced and then crushed from within gender divide.
By analysing how Victorian literary texts both reveal and reconcile
historical anxieties about the meaning of manliness, Dowling argues
that masculinity is a complex construction rather than a natural
given.
The Spanish Civil War became the setting for the struggle between
revolution and counter-revolution as well as being, for many
outsiders, the place of armed conflict between the forces of
democracy and fascism. This book is a path-breaking synthesis of
political, social and cultural history concerning the anarchist
revolution during the Spanish Civil War by Spain's leading
historian of the Civil War.
The purpose of this book is to address two principal questions:
'Was the concept of masculinity a topic of debate for the
Victorians?' and 'Why is Victorian literature full of images of
male deviance when Victorian masculinity is defined by discipline?'
In his introduction, Dowling defines Victorian masculinity in terms
of discipline. He then addresses the central question of why an
official ideal of manly discipline in the nineteenth century
co-existed with a literature that is full of images of male
deviance. In answering this question, he develops a notion of
'hegemonic deviance', whereby a dominant ideal of masculinity
defines itself by what it is not. Dowling goes on to examine the
fear of effeminacy facing Victorian literary men and the strategies
used to combat these fears by the nineteenth-century male novelist.
In later chapters, concentrating on Dickens and Thackeray, he
examines how the male novelist is defined against multiple images
of unmanliness. These chapters illustrate the investment made by
men in constructing male 'others', those sources of difference that
are constantly produced and then crushed from within gender divide.
By analysing how Victorian literary texts both reveal and reconcile
historical anxieties about the meaning of manliness, Dowling argues
that masculinity is a complex construction rather than a natural
given.
The Spanish Civil War became the setting for the struggle between
revolution and counter-revolution as well as being, for many
outsiders, the place of armed conflict between the forces of
democracy and fascism. This book is a path-breaking synthesis of
political, social and cultural history concerning the anarchist
revolution during the Spanish Civil War by Spain's leading
historian of the Civil War.
Catalonia since the Spanish Civil War examines the transformation
of the Catalan nation in socio-economic, political and historical
terms, and offers an innovative interpretation of the determinants
of its nationalist mobilisation. With Franco's and Spanish
nationalism's victory in 1939, and the consolidation of a
long-lasting dictatorship, it appeared certain that the Catalan
national movement would be crushed. Yet, this did not happen and
Catalan nationalism and identity reemerged at the end of Franco's
dictatorship in 1975 more firmly rooted than before. The core of
Reconstructing the Nation traces the Francoist repression and the
nationalist response to it, demonstrating how new political actors
reconfigured Catalan nationalism over the course of the Franco
regime (19391975). Post-Franco, Catalan cultural and political
identity was consolidated and Catalonia became the most successful
state-less nationalism in western Europe. The 21st century has been
marked by an ever-growing independence movement, culminating in the
vast demonstration in the city of Barcelona in July 2010. Andrew
Dowling provides multi-faceted viewpoints in historic perspective,
and reflects on possible steps and outcomes for this new
pro-independence turn in Catalan nationalism. This study will
appeal not only to students of Spain but also to those interested
in nationalism as a separate issue of enquiry. The themes treated
in the book Franco's Spain, nationalism, anarchism, Catholicism,
communism and the Catalan role in Spain's transition to democracy
make this work an essential point of reference for students and
researchers in Hispanic studies, modern European history and
political science.
This book examines the transformation of the Catalan nation in
socio-economic, political and historical terms, and offers an
innovative interpretation of the determinants of its nationalist
mobilisation. With Franco's and Spanish nationalism's victory in
1939, and the consolidation of a long-lasting dictatorship, it
appeared certain that the Catalan national movement would be
crushed. Yet, this did not happen and Catalan nationalism and
identity re-emerged at the end of Franco's dictatorship in 1975
more firmly rooted than before. The core of this book traces the
Francoist repression and the nationalist response to it,
demonstrating how new political actors reconfigured Catalan
nationalism over the course of the Franco regime (1939--1975).
Post-Franco, Catalan cultural and political identity was
consolidated and Catalonia became the most successful state-less
nationalism in western Europe. The 21st century has been marked by
an ever-growing independence movement, culminating in the vast
demonstration in the city of Barcelona in July 2010. Andrew Dowling
provides multi-faceted viewpoints in historic perspective, and
reflects on possible steps and outcomes for this new
pro-independence turn in Catalan nationalism. This study will
appeal not only to students of Spain but also to those interested
in nationalism as a separate issue of enquiry. The themes treated
in the book -- Franco's Spain, nationalism, anarchism, Catholicism,
communism and the Catalan role in Spain's transition to democracy
-- make this work an essential point of reference for students and
researchers in Hispanic studies, modern European history and
political science. Published in association with the Catalan
Observatory, London School of Economics.
Post-suburbia is a term that encapsulates a variety of contemporary
urban forms, in particular the 'edge city' - a term used to
describe the rapid growth of new urban centres at the edges of
established major cities. Widely discussed in the US, very little
has been written about European edge cities and this book provides
a comparative analysis of examples in Greece, Spain, Paris, Finland
and the UK, offering a theoretical analysis of the edge city and of
post-suburban Europe.
The term 'edge city' describes the rapid growth of urban centres at
the edge of established cities. Widely discussed in the US, very
little has been written about European edge cities. This book gives
a comparative analysis of examples in Greece, Spain, Paris, Finland
and the UK, with a theoretical analysis of edge cities and
post-suburban Europe.
As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed
by scholars as exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was
seen within Europe and beyond as a role model for successful
devolution which had much to teach other parts of the world. The
Spanish state seemed to be on a journey towards an authentic
federal order and was generally admired. However, the new century
has been marked by an ever-growing independence movement, with 47.8
per cent of Catalonia voting in favour of independence in September
2015. Pro-independence mobilization has produced a rupture in
political relations with the rest of Spain leading to a sovereignty
struggle with Madrid. This book explores how an accumulation of
long-, medium- and short-term factors have produced the current
situation and why the Spanish territorial model has been unable or
possibly, unwilling, to respond. The Catalan question is not purely
a Spanish problem: it has direct implications for the traditional
nation-state model, in Europe and beyond.
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