Radicals against Carlists: The struggle for public space in Cuenca during the Democratic “Sexenio” (1868-1874)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i20.592

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Spain, XIX Century, politicization, secularization, anticlericalism, democracy, traditionalism

Abstract

The Revolution of 1868 opened an historical period characterized by an intense process of politicization among the Spanish population. Its effects were not limited to urban areas, but were also important in the agrarian interior of the country. The new democratic system favored public debate. In this sense, the monarchical issue was placed at the heart of political struggles. The secularizing impulse deployed by the new democratic institutions was directly related to that debate that marked, on the one hand, the option of a de-sacralized monarchy subordinated to the Constitution of 1869 and, on the other hand, a legitimist and ultra-Catholic option, in which the influence of Carlism was decisive. The aim of this paper consists in evaluating these processes from the framework of an archetypal city of rural Spain, as was the case of Cuenca. The analysis, in this sense, focuses in the projection on public space of these political mobilization.

 

Enviado el (Submission Date): 12/03/2019

Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 5/05/2019

Author Biography

Eduardo Higueras Castañeda, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Doctor en Historia con mención internacional. Profesor asociado (acreditado para contratado doctor) 6 horas, nivel 3) en el Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

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Published

2019-05-02

Issue

No. 20 (2019): Historia Constitucional N. 20 (2019)

Section

Kings at grassroots levels. Monarchical Symbolism and Public Space in Southern Europe (XIX and XX centuries)

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