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Eighteenth-century Spain was haunted by a sense of decadence. Consequently, intellectual innovation developed in its attempt to recover its lost grandeur while keeping its Catholic culture. In such a context, politicaleconomic reflection focused in a remarkable way on a scientific approach to social habits. Reception of foreign developments was ada...
For over half a century now, the Spanish war of 1936 has been defined as a civil war. Trends in the social sciences and the humanities on one side, and on the other the dynamics of historiographic research on the Spanish Second Republic and World War II allow now to observe and classify the massacres of civilians during and after the Spanish war as...
The involvement of Western citizens in jihadist activities bears important epistemological consequences: presented as a clash of civilizations, Islamic terrorism brings to the fore the issue of civil war. This article, after underlining that both terrorism and holy wars have a long pedigree in Western history, traces the interplay of religious and...
Although part of a wider cultural and political phenomenon in world democracies, the revival movement on memory from traumatic past events has in the case of Spain strong contextual bearings. Drawing on the concept of ‘regimes of memory’, this article discusses two successive patterns of supply and demand of discourse and policies on memory from th...
The image of the crowd as an irrational, spontaneous multitude is commonly related to the works of a first generation of social psychologists writing in the early twentieth century, yet its basic features can be found in conceptual innovations developed as early as the Enlightenment. This article focuses on a particular protest in eighteenth-centur...
Durante la pasada decada se ha incrementado el interes de los medios de comunicacion y de la sociedad civil espanola por la “memoria historica”, interes que se ha puesto de manifiesto, entre otras cosas, en algunos debates relacionados con el pasado reciente (1931-1981). En estos debates han participado historiadores profesionales y otros actores s...
The past decade has seen an increasing interest on the part of the Spanish media and civil society in "historical memory", marked, among other things, by a number of public debates on issues related to recent Spanish history (1931-1981). In these debates, academic historians have participated alongside other social actors, ranging from writers and...
La mayor parte de los ideólogos del moderantismo tras la implantación del régimen liberal fueron destacados teóricos de la estética que contribuyeron a fijar el canon del romanticismo en España. Este artículo investiga la influencia de las reflexiones estéticas de autores como Alberto Lista, Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Alcalá Galiano en su teoría del g...
Este artículo analiza los cambios producidos en el significado del concepto de policía a mediados del siglo XVIII en España, justo antes del establecimiento de las primeras instituciones de policía en el reinado de Carlos III. Asume que el concepto ilustrado de policía se desarrolló en todas partes en torno de un amplio debate sobre el estadio come...
This article focuses on the definition of wine as a commodity and as an object of fiscal policy in Madrid during the XIXth century. Against the assumption of neoinstitutional perspectives, for which the definition of a product -being a parcel of property rights- has positive effects by itself over the supply and demand, it is argued in this text th...
This article discusses the methods of analysis and of measurement and the underlying theoretical assumptions of the classical work on European urbanization by Jan de Vries published in 1984. Distinguishing between urbanization figures in Castile and Aragon, a pattern of urban growth can be outlined for sixteenth-century Castile which presents itsel...
This article discusses the methods of analysis and of measurement and the underlying theoretical assumptions of the classical work on European urbanization by Jan de Vries published in 1984. Distinguishing between urbanization figures in Castile and Aragon, a pattern of urban growth can be outlined for sixteenth-century Castile which presents itsel...
DomínguezR.: El campesino adaptativo. Campesinos y mercado en el norte de España, 1750–1880, Santander, Universidad de Cantabria, 1995, 333 pp., apéndice estadístico, apéndice documental, índice de gráficos, cuadros y nombres. - Volume 15 Issue 1 - Pablo Sánchez León
This working-paper describes and tries to anaIize patterns of wine consumption between 1850 and 1950, a period of important structural changes in the economies of Europe. Three sub-periods - 1850-1880; 1880-1914 and 1818-1938- are distinguished to analyze the relation between prices, income and diet changes; England and France are used as case-stud...
