The Routledge Handbook of Spanish History

Andrew Dowling is an Associate Professor in Spanish History at Cardiff University. Amongst his main publications are Catalonia: A New History (Routledge 2022); The Rise of Catalan Independence: Spain’s Territorial Crisis (Routledge 2018) and Catalonia since the Spanish Civil War: Reconstructing the Nation (Sussex Academic Press 2012).

Introduction Part 1: Medieval 1. The Reconquest in Spanish Historiography 2. War in Medieval Spain: A Militarised Society? 3. The Transformation of the Medieval Iberian Economy 1200-1500 4. Minorities in the Medieval and Pre-Modern Christian Spains 5. The Spanish Monarchy, 1450 to 1600 6. Spanish Imperial Expansion 1500 to 1600 7. Spanish National Myths and their Conception of the Middle Ages Part 2: Early Modern 8. Economic Growth and Inequality: Three Centuries of Spanish Economic Development, 1500–1800 9. Social Change in Early Modern Spain (1600-1800) 10. Cities and Urban Life in Early Modern Spain 11. Spain’s Political Relations with Spanish America in the Early Modern Period 12. The Rural Worlds in Early Modern Spain: Different, Dynamic and Changing 13. British and French Influence and the Development of a National Market in Spain, 1650-1808 14. The Press and the Emergence of Public Opinion in the Spanish Enlightenment Part 3: Nineteenth Century 15. Spanish Political Development 1808 to 1868 16. Spanish Foreign Policy 1808 to 1902: From Empire to Peripheral Power 17. The Idea of the Spanish Nation, 1808 to 1898 18. Women and Gender in Nineteenth Century Spain. A History of Their Own 19. Spanish Orientalism 20. Liberalism and Corruption in the Nineteenth Century: Money, Power and Connections 21. The Brains, the Guts, and the Numbers: Political and Ideological Conflicts in Spain (1845-1898) 22. Tradition and Modernity in Spanish Elections (1876-1923) 23. Republicanism in Spain: The Struggle for Liberty, 1840–1931 24. Spain and its Colonial Wars, 1858 to 1927 25. Women’s Work in Contemporary Spain (1856-1930): Myths and Experiences Part 4: Twentieth Century 26. The Demographic Modernisation of Spain in the Twentieth Century 27. Alfonso XIII: A Reckless Driver 28. Cultures of Catholicism and Secularism in Spain, 1898-1939 29. The Anarchist Movement 1871-1939 30. Peasant Men and Women in Spain, 1900 to 1936 31. Transnational Influences on the Ideology of the Spanish Right, 1920 to 1936 32. The Spanish Civil War 33. Conservatives and the Spanish Nation (1923-1978) 34. Galicia, 1916-1982: Culture, Politics and Identity 35. Political and Cultural Identities in the Basque Country, 1930-1980 36. Catalonia 1930 to 1980: Society and Identity 37. The Spanish Anti-Liberal Right and the Question of Gender, 1931–1975 38. What was the Franco Regime? 39. The Franco Regime and its Responses to Social Change 40. Narratives of the Rural World and the Question of Modernity in Franco’s Spain 41. Political Cultures of the Spanish Left, 1939 to 1982 42. Transnational Influences on Spanish Political Culture, 1960 to 1982 43. The Transition to Democracy. The Creation and Crisis of a Myth 44. The Spanish Civil War, Francoism and Historical Memory