Name: Modernizing the Nation: Spain During the Reign of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931 (in English)
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Author: Moreno-Luzon, Javier
ISBN: 9781845198107

portada Modernizing the Nation: Spain During the Reign of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931 (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Javier Luzón Peña

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781845198107

Synopsis "Modernizing the Nation: Spain During the Reign of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931 (in English)"

This book is a new short history of Spain during a crucial period, the reign of Alfonso XIII (1902-1931). Traditionally, this has been seen as a time that epitomised the worst features of 'old Spain': a backward country, poor and chronically unequal, with a government dominated by a tiny oligarchy ruling over a corrupt system -- an anomaly in Western Europe. However, this study, in line with the most recent historiography, offers a new insight into the period as one that was actually characterised by extensive modernisation in Spanish society and politics. Spain experienced, albeit in an unbalanced way, many of the changes already in progress in other European countries, such as urbanisation, industrialisation, mass migration, the rise in literacy, secularisation, and the emergence of mass politics. It then suffered profound conflicts associated with these changes, and a political dynamic of reform and reaction, revolution and counter-revolution. The book is divided into four main sections, dealing, chronologically, with the beginnings of the regenerationist era, the climax of the liberal monarchy, conflicts during the crisis of liberalism, and the military dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Primarily a political history, it also touches on social, cultural and economic issues, and offers a comparative European perspective. Last but not least, there is a special interest in the problems of nation-building, a central theme of the period, and the competition between different versions of Spanish nationalism and regional nationalist movements -- above all, Catalanism and Basque nationalism. Overall, the Spanish situation is presented here not as a unique case but as a variation within the difficulties that were encountered all across continental Europe in achieving the transition from classical liberalism to mass democracy.

Javier Luzón Peña

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Javier Luzón Peña (1952), es Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura en Filosofía (1976). Becario del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, se dedicó entre 1974 y 1980 a la docencia universitaria y a la investigación en el campo de la Antropología Filosófica.
Sacerdote desde 1980, fue formador en dos seminarios, y trabajó como capellán en la pastoral universitaria y juvenil, colaborando en parroquias. En 1984 se doctora en Teología. Desde 1985, se ocupó preferentemente de la pastoral matrimonial, impartió ejercicios espirituales y cursos de formación a casados, a jóvenes y a sacerdotes, y colaboró en actividades de culto y formación organizadas por Hermandades y Cofradías.

Ha impartido abundantes cursos de Teología, y ha sido Profesor en el Centro diocesano de Teología de Getafe, de Antropología Teológica y de Sagrada Escritura. Actualmente imparte cursos de Biblia y de Patrología en parroquias de Madrid.

Fue exorcista entre 1995 y 2015 en las diócesis de Córdoba y de Madrid. Es Vicario parroquial y Capellán Coordinador de un Hospital, en Madrid.

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