Oscar jose Martin Garcia

University of La Laguna | ULL · Department of History

The purpose of the article is to present those studies in the field of the History of Education that have emphasized international influences and educational modernization. To do this, the first part of this article addresses the origin of this type of research within the History of Education. We then focus on analyzing the subsequent evolution tha...

Throughout the 1960s, Spanish students staged a strong opposition against the dictatorship of General Franco. Also during this decade, the U.S. Foreign Service in Spain began to pay great attention to these students for two key reasons. On the one hand, student protests posed a threat to US defensive interests in a country with a high strategic val...

Recensión de / Review of: José Antonio Castellano López, "Quién fue quién en la transición en Castilla-La Mancha (1977-1982)", Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha-Cortes de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, 2014.Enviado el (Submission Date): 19/01/2016Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 12/03/2016

Este artículo analiza la influencia de la teoría de la modernización sobre la formulación y justificación de la política exterior norteamericana entre los años cincuenta y setenta. Tal paradigma constituyó el marco científico desde el cual la maquinaria exterior estadounidense interpretó el cambio social global acontecido durante esas décadas. Igua...

The United States' support for the Franco dictatorship, along with British dominion over Gibraltar, caused an increasing sense of frustration towards the United States and United Kingdom amongst broad sectors of the Spanish public during the 1960s and 1970s. Growing resentment towards the Anglo-American presence in Spain threatened to jeopardise th...

This article examines the role that Harold Wilson's Labour government played in the democratisation process begun in Portugal after the military coup of 25 April 1974. As we shall see, British policy towards regime change in the Iberian country is a relevant subject of study for various reasons. However, little attention has been paid by historians...

This article aims to analyse the contribution made by Christian movements towards constructing a democratic citizenship in an authoritarian context in the backward province of Albacete. Our study attempts to analyse the efforts made by grassroots Catholic sectors to foster democratic enclaves free from the interference of the Francoist state in 196...

The current political and economic crisis has fuelled a new cycle of collective action in Spain. The response of the Spanish authorities to this wave of mobilisations has been to strengthen public order. But on some occasions, the excessive use of police force has given rise to problems of image for the Spanish government. To avoid public criticism...

This paper examines how the Johnson administration implemented new public diplomacy programmes aimed at projecting a positive image of the USA among Spanish university students as part of the cultural Cold War. In other words, the following pages are an analysis of the exchange diplomacy and the ideological action which the superpower deployed in S...

This paper studies the role of Catholic social movements deeply influenced by the Second Vatican Council in the creation of democratic enclaves in a rural and underdeveloped scenario during last years of the Franco regime. It analyses the involvement of various Christian rank and file groups in the formation of a relational network autonomous from...

Since the early 1960's, American and British diplomatic services have become interested in the problem of who would succeed Franco. The United States and Great Britain sought to influence a future regime change, which was to be moderate and favorable to their interests in Spain. But this required that both countries improve the image that Spanish p...

From 1973 to 1977 the Western allies committed to ensuring a controlled political change in Portugal and Spain. Although the end of the Iberian authoritarian regimes has traditionally been approached by scholars as a domestic matter, new academic works emphasize the international aspects of the substitution of the Iberian dictatorships. These appro...

Los años finales del franquismo fueron testigo de la extensión de una pujante conflictividad social que, sin conseguir derribar al régimen, contribuyó a erosionar las bases de la dictadura y a crear las condiciones políticas en las que tuvo lugar la transición a la democracia. Este creciente ciclo de protestas fue alimentado y potenciado por el des...

La conflictividad social creció notablemente en España durante el franquismo final, hasta crear las condiciones políticas en las que tuvo lugar la transición democrática. Son varios los factores que explican la intensificación de este ciclo de protestas, pero el presente artículo profundiza en uno de ellos apenas estudiado por la historiografía esp...

En los últimos años han aparecido testimonios de participantes de movimiento estudiantil que trivializan y avalan una interpretación débil del valor del mismo. Independientemente de relatos y mitos, lo que resulta innegable es la importancia de la acción juvenil en la erosión y deslegitimación de las estructuras políticas autoritarias. El hecho de...

Specialised literature on democratisation has generally presented the Spanish case as the model of an elite-led political settlement. This approach forms the basis of the most widespread interpretation of Spain's transition to democracy as a work of top-down political engineering. However, this scholarship fails to pay sufficient attention to the c...

El núcleo de este trabajo se basa en la presentación de las principales líneas de trabajo que sobre el segundo franquismo y la transición se están llevando a cabo en el Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha y, más concretamente, en el seno del Seminario de Estudios de Franquismo y Transición (SEFT) que dio sus primeros pa...

Este artículo intenta profundizar en la naturaleza y los repertorios de la protesta protagonizada por los empleados del sector de la banca en el Albacete de la parte final del franquismo. Objetivo que lleva consigo el análisis de la interacción entre la acción colectiva y la estructura de oportunidades políticas, así como de los esfuerzos de los lí...