دانلود کتاب Spain: Inventing the Nation

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CONTENTS
LIST OF ACRONYMS
CHAPTER ONE Prologue: From present-day Spain back to the origins
When to call an old state like Spain a nation?
CHAPTER TWO An old state in a new era (1808–33): Planting the seed of the nation
Proto-nationalism in Spain: the Spanish variant of Enlightenment
Napoleonic invasion as the germ of the national idea
Victory against the French
Zigzagging between absolutism and liberal nationalism in the first half of the nineteenth century
CHAPTER THREE The liberal Spanish nation (1834–75): In search of a mass audience
The wrong experiences of war
The ‘invention’ of two national histories
Revolutionary outcomes of the stalemate between liberalism and conservative reaction (1868–74)
CHAPTER FOUR The Restoration regime (1875–1923): The non-solution to the national problem(s)
A marriage of convenience: The Restoration regime
Setting the scene for national divisions of Spain
Spain as an ex-colonial empire
The appearance of alternative nations (Catalonia and the Basque Country)
‘Last-minute’ nation-building
The liberal-conservative oligarchic Restoration regime’s fi nal crisis
CHAPTER FIVE Military dictatorship (1923–31): A solution to the nationalization of the masses?
Brief parenthesis or deep regeneration?
The Catalan conjuncture
The war in Morocco
From parenthesis to regenerator
Discourse on the nation and nationalization of the masses
Parenthesis or precursor?
CHAPTER SIX The Second Spanish Republic (1931–9): The short-lived success of the liberal national project
Republican take over as victory of left-liberal discourse on the nation
Republican government and Constitution as a reform programme
The crumbling of the republican coalition and the unification of the conservative opposition
The swing of the pendulum: the black ‘bienio’ , 1933–5
The swing back: the Frente Popular
The republican nation and its symbols
Developing the authoritarian ideology in the shadow of the Republic
Conclusions: the republican nation
CHAPTER SEVEN The Civil War (1936–9): Military confrontation of the two national projects
The uprising divides Spain
International involvement in the war
The Civil War as a conflict of different national narratives
The results of the Civil War
CHAPTER EIGHT The Franco regime (1939–75): Victory of the National-Catholic project
Military victory of one national idea
Post-war economy
The Francoist national project
Victory in symbols
Out of isolation into the growth of the West
Adapting the legitimization discourse and the symbols
Division as the origin of consensus
CHAPTER NINE The death of Franco: Solution and postponement
The slow beginning of the transition
Transition to democracy by reform from within
The nation in transition: a unique opportunity of consensus
‘Unity of will’ not amalgamation
Settling the national question anew: the Constitution of 1978
National problems and tension between symmetry and asymmetry
CHAPTER TEN The new democratic Spain: Mobilizing identities
Identitarian mobilization in the periphery
Mobilizing Spanish identity by reaction
The discarded symbols and commemorations
The ‘recycled’ commemorations
The new commemorations
The quest for identity of the ‘slow’-track regions
CHAPTER ELEVEN The new European Spain: United and divisions forgotten?
Agreement in positive and in negative
Regional autonomy and democratic consolidation
Continued economic crisis and Europe as solution in waiting
The socialist decade
Europe as solution to Spanish problems
CHAPTER TWELVE The national holidays in democracy: Struggling national discourses
Between the 23-F and the ‘era’ of the quincentennial
From the popular celebration of the Constitution to the ‘puente de la Constitución’13
A conflictual holiday
The democratic Spanish nation and its symbolic impasse
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The second turnover: Consolidating democracy
The crisis of the socialist ‘system’
In Europe and in the world
Opposition grows
Updating the Constitution?
Post festum: the national symbols after the quincentennial
Symbolic ‘rearmament’ under the PP
The Spanish flag in the battlefield
Updating the discourse on the Spanish nation
From post festum decline to the nationalist ‘rearmament’ of the PP
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Accommodating the past: Revisiting the historical master narrative
Memory politics in Spain: the so-called Pact of Forgetting
Legitimacy of the new democracy and the politics of the past
The Spanish parties and the authoritarian past
The left-wing parties and the tacit transition pact
The ‘explosion’ of historical memory
The ‘Law on Historical Memory’
Memory politics as a constant
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Accommodating nationalist pretensions: Is it possible?
The constitutional postponement of the national problem
The leverage of the Basques and the Catalans
Identity politics and political elite vs public opinion
Renegotiating autonomy
The Ibarretxe Plan and the Catalan Statute of Autonomy
The polarization of the Catalan situation
The Constitutional Court ruling
The post-sentence phase of Catalan independentismo
The March towards Independence
The Basques in the shadow of Catalonia – the slow route to independence?
Constitutional reform as a solution?
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Epilogue: Crisis and its effects on the national tensions
Why is the crisis of Spain worse?
Has the ‘autonomy spiral’ been broken by crisis?
The EU and secessionist tendencies
Can secessionism be avoided?
Referendum – the fundamental question of demos
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