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1 online resource (xiv, 363 pages) |
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Historizing the Language of Modern Citizenship -- Representation and Participation at the Crossroads -- The Differentiation Between Representation and Participation as a Modern Phenomenon -- Democratic Imagination in the Passage to Modernity -- The Inclusion of the Crowd as a Contingent Process -- Spain, 1766-1868: Democracy in the Struggle for the Meaning of Citizenship -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Order: From Plebeian Disorder to Popular Citizenship-Constitutional Imagination Between Contexts, 1766-1814 |
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Regime Changes and the Resignification of the Legacies of the Past -- Disorder, Restoration, and Change: The Old Regime Re-signified, 1766-1774 -- Mobilization and Participation Without Representation: The Coining of the Plebe, 1766-1808 -- Constitutional Crisis, Popular Power, and Democracy-in-Corporation: 1808-1814 -- Epilogue and Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Subject: Education, Taxed Wealth, Capacity, Roots-Citizenship Criteria from the Enlightenment to Liberalism, 1780s-1840s -- Political Crises and Communal-Based Criteria for Citizenship |
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Interest Without Ownership: Citizenship Based on Education up to Early Liberalism -- Rent Without Culture: Political Exclusion Based on Property in Isabelline Liberalism -- Rootedness with Capacity: The Inclusive Citizenship of Evolving Doceañismo -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Space: The Spectre of Plebeian Tyranny-Popular Participation, Radical Leadership, and the Revolutions of 1848 -- Historicizing the Semantic Field of Populism -- Plebeian Tyranny, a Legacy of the Old Regime -- The Struggle over the Meaning of Democracy in Post-1812 Spanish Liberalism |
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Spain and 1848 as a Watershed in the History of the Semantic Field of Democracy -- The Transnational 1848 and the Protagonism of the Crowd as a Subaltern Group -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Time: The Fatalist Loop-Historical Culture and Popular Empowerment in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Citizenship, Historical Culture, and Empowerment: Now and Then -- Fatalism in the Intellectual and Ideological Debates During the Isabelline Period -- Conservative Hegemony and Antipopular Prejudice -- The Discursive Loop of Juan Donoso Cortés in Context |
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The Semantic Turn of Fatalism in Historical Narrative -- Epilogue and Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Identity: Enraged Citizens or Subaltern Crowd? Popular Mobilization, Representation, and Participation in the Spanish Revolution of 1854 -- The Limits of Representation in Modern Citizenship -- The Value of Unity and the Meaning of Democracy Among the Early Democrats -- Seville, 1854: Radical Identities Without Party Representation -- Madrid, 1854: Plebeian Identities Without Discursive Representation -- The Aftermath of the Revolution: Unity Beyond Monarchy -- Conclusions -- Works Cited |
| Summary |
This book addresses the changing relationships among political participation, political representation, and popular mobilization in Spain from the 1766 protest in Madrid against the early Bourbon reforms until the citizen revolution of 1868 that first introduced universal suffrage and led to the ousting of the monarchy. Popular Participation and the Democratic Imagination in Spain shows that a notion of the crowd internally dividing the concept of people existed before the advent of Liberalism, allowing for the enduring subordination of popular participation to representation in politics. In its wider European and colonial American context, the study analyzes semantic changes in a range of cultural spheres, from parliamentary debate to historical narrative and aesthetics. It shows how Liberalism had trouble reproducing the legitimacy of limited suffrage and traces the evolution of an imagination on democracy that would allow for the reconfiguration of an all-encompassing image of the people eventually overcoming representative government. Focused on the nation and identities, Spanish historiography had a pending debt with that other historical subject of modernity, the people. With this book, Pablo Sanchez Leon starts cancelling the debt with an innovative methodology combining conceptual history with social and political history. Brilliantly, this books also proposes a novel chronology for modern history and renewed categories of analysis. In many senses, this is an extraordinarily renovating senior work. Jose Maria Portillo Valdes, University of the Basque Country, Spain. This book by Pablo Sanchez Leon is an original and detailed study of one of the essential components of modernity, the relation between the concepts of plebe and pueblo. The author shows that plebe and people were shaped in a process of mutual differentiation and how the enduring tension between them deeply marked out the evolution of Spanish politics from the end of the Old Regime and throughout the 19th century. As the author brilliantly argues, such tension is tightly imbricated with the enduring dilemma between representation and participation underlying modern political systems. Through a historical analysis of the influence of people and plebe over Spanish, the book makes clear the degree to which the power of language contributes to shape political actors and institutional frames. Miguel Angel Cabrera Professor, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. This is a book for exploring (from current needs) the history of political participation in Spanish society in order to rethink the very notion of modern citizenship. Maria Sierra, University of Seville, Spain. Motivated by the current crisis in political representation in parliamentary democracies, this work by Pablo Sanchez Leon departs from the process of construction of modern citizenship. Representation, participation and mobilization are put into play as an interactive triad whose dynamics and changing conceptualization have the key to the social, political and cultural changes between the Old Regime and the early establishment of democracy in 1868. The They do not represent us! and other current claims for deliberative democracy provide the guiding thread for a demanding research on the tension between representation and participation shaping the period 1766-1868. The work reflects on the relevance of popular participation and, in presenting the modern history of Spain as singular and relevant on its own, provides an account of the building of modern citizenship. Pablo Fernandez Albaladejo, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain This exciting book is both topical and historiographically valuable. It offers a fresh perspective on current debates about the limits of representation and the pros and cons of participation; it makes Spanish political culture in the age of revolutions accessible to anglophone readers, and it engagingly illustrates one way of doing the history of concepts. Recommended on all three counts. Joanna Innes, Oxford University Pablo Sanchez Leon is a researcher at the Centro de Humanidades CHAM of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has published extensively about the history of social movements in Spain and works on the relations between language and identity. He is coeditor of Palabras que atan [Words that bind] (Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2015) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed March 11, 2021) |
| Subject |
Political participation -- Spain -- History -- 18th century
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Political participation -- Spain -- History -- 19th century
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Representative government and representation -- Spain -- History -- 18th century
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Political participation
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Politics and government
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Representative government and representation
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Spain -- Politics and government -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126162
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Spain -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126165
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Spain
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030525965 |
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3030525961 |
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