28125 - Modern Spanish History: 19th Century
Compulsory
5.3. Syllabus
Introduction: Building the national history of Spain. Nation, Nationalism and History in the nineteenth century.
I. THE CRISIS OF THE OLD REGIME. LIBERALISM, CITIZENSHIP AND NATION (1808-1843).
1. The legacies of the Old Régimen.- Illustration to Liberalism.- The impact of the French Revolution and the crisis of the monarchy.
2. The French occupation and the War of Independence.- The Frenchified Administration. Constitution and Nation in the Cortes of Cadiz: Spanish- Revolution. Restoration of Absolutism and the constitutional trienio. The end of the colonial empire .
3. The Revolution liberal.- Revolutionary Juntas and the cosntituent process.- The legal abolition of feudalism.- Counterrevolution and civil war.
II. LIBERAL SOCIETY AND CULTURE A MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY.
1. Formation of the domestic market and liberal state building.- Population growth and expansion agraria.- Catalonia, factory of Spain.- The "New Liberal Plant": land planning, public finance, education system ...
2. Liberalism and parliamentarianism in the monarchy of Elizabeth II. The Moderate Decade and the establishment of 1845.- The military and politics.
3. Economic development and liberal bourgeoisie.- The economic program of progresism.- Legislation banks and ferrocarriles.- The Liberal Union and the crisis of the Elizabethan state.
III.- THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION TO THE RESTORATION. SOCIETY AND STATE 1868 AND 1898.
1. The Democratic Revolution of 1868.- Economic crisis and political change.- Constitution: Monarchy and Democracy.- Experience and autonomy of the popular classes: republicanism, federalism and labor organization. 1873 Republican solution.
2. The Conservative Restoration: Society and monarchism.- The Constitution of 1876 and the political practice of the system.- The political marginalization of social mouvements.- Republican and worker´s political and social culture.
3. The end of century.- The agrarian crisis and the dismantling of the spanish interior market.- Industrialization and migrations.- From Empire to Nation: the loss of old empire territories.- The ideological crisis: regeneracionism, populism and Basque and Catalan nationalism.
5.4. Course planning and calendar
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