Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain

David San Narciso completed his PhD in Modern and Contemporary History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He works on nineteenth-century Spanish history and specialises in the history of monarchy and the construction of masculinity. He has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Together with Raquel Sánchez, he is the editor of La cuestión de Palacio. Corte y cortesanos en la España contemporánea (2018). Margarita Barral-Martínez is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She received the 2009 Galicia Research Prize (Xunta de Galicia, Spain). She has directed research projects and her monographs and edited collections editions include Alfonso XIII visita España. Monarquía y nación (2016); Eugenio Montero Ríos: a Restauración e o urbanismo clientelar en Santiago de Compostela (2016); and A visita de Isabel II a Galicia en 1858. Monarquía e provincialismo ao servizo da nacionalización (2012). Carolina Armenteros is the Director of the Centre for European Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra and a regular Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Among her publications are The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794–1854 (2011); ‘The Political Thought of Madame de Genlis: Rousseau’s Royalist Legacy’, Revue électronique de littérature française (2013); and ‘Le XVIIe siècle des royalistes : l’héritage politique de Montesquieu et de Voltaire, 1771–1831’, Cahiers de la Maison de Chateaubriand (2018).

Introduction; Part I: An Institution’s Political Dynamics; 1. The Mutations of the Spanish Monarchy, 1750–1868; 2. Spanish Modernity and the (Gendered) Monarchy: From Biography to History and Back to Biography; 3. Amadeo I: The Republican King?; 4. The Consolidation of the Constitutional Monarchical System (1874–1902); 5. The Two Monarchies of Alfonso XIII, 1902–1931; Part II: Ritual, Staging, and Nationalisation; 6. The Problem of Ritual in the Spanish Post-Revolutionary Monarchical Fiction (1833–1868); 7. The Royal Family as a Symbolic Fiction: A Mixed Picture of New Forms of Legitimacy in Spain’s Liberal Monarchy (1843–1931); 8. The King on a Coin: Monarchy, State, and Nation through Nineteenth-Century Spanish Coins and Stamps; 9. The Pious Crown: The Monarchy’s Religious Devotions during the Reign of Isabel II; 10. The King’s Descent into the People’s Assembly: Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain’s Nineteenth-Century State Opening of Parliament Ceremony; 11. Royal Travels: The Modern Staging and Legitimation of the Spanish Monarchy, 1858–1931