Spanish History since 1808

Jose Alvarez Junco is Professor of the History of Political Ideas and Social Movements at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Adrian Shubert is Professor of History at York University, Canada.

'This new edited collection will inevitably find a prominent place on the reading lists of courses on modern Spanish and European history. It is a substantial volume with broad temporal and thematic coverage.' English Historical Review

• Part 1 The travails of liberalism, 1808-1874; the liberal revolution, 1808-1843; the moderate era, 1843-1868; church and state, 1808-1874; the left - from liberralism to democracy. Part 2 The restoration, 1875-1914: political and social elites; Spain in the world; the restoration monarchy and the competition of nationalisms; the emerging challenge of mass politics; fin de siecle culture. Part 3 Spain in the interwar crisis of liberalism, 1914-1939: economic growth and backwardness, 1780-1930; the assult on liberalism, 1914-1923; the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, 1923-1931; the second republic, 1931-1936; the Spanish civil war. Part 4 The Franco regime, 1939-1975: early Francoism, 1939-1957; the Desarrollo years, 1955-1975; national Catholicism, culture and gender. Part 5 The democratic monarchy, 1975-1996: the opposition to Franco, the transition to democracy and the new political system; the reawakening of peripheral nationalisms and the state of the autonomics; the socialist era 1982-1996.