Metaphors of Spain (eBook)

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. He has taught at Paris X, the City University of New York, and Stanford University, and has written several monographs on comparative Iberian and European nationalism, migration studies, and the cultural history of war.

Javier Moreno-Luzón is Full Professor of Modern History at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Harvard University. Among his publications in English is Modernizing the Nation: Spain during the Reign of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931 (2012).

Introduction: The Nation and its Metaphors
Javier Moreno-Luzón & Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

Chapter 1. History and National Myth
José Álvarez Junco

Chapter 2. The Flag and the Anthem: the Disputed Official Symbols of Spain
Javier Moreno-Luzón & Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

Chapter 3. The Republic, or Spain Freed from Itself
Àngel Duarte

Chapter 4. ‘The King of all Spaniards’? Monarchy and Nation
Javier Moreno-Luzón

Chapter 5. Gender and the Spanish Nation
Inmaculada Blasco Herranz

Chapter 6. Religion: the Idea of Catholic Spain
Mary Vincent

Chapter 7. The Language(s) of the Spanish Nation
José M. Núñez Seixas

Chapter 8. The Americas and the Celebration of 12 October
Marcela García Sebastiani  & David Marcilhacy

Chapter 9. Bullfights as a National Festivity
Rafael Núñez Florencio

Chapter 10. Sports and the Spanish Nation
Alejandro Quiroga

Chapter 11. Music and Spanish Nationalism
Sandie Holguín

Chapter 12. A More Spanish Spain: The Influence of Tourism on the National Image
Eric Storm

Bibliography
Index