Gentlemen, Bourgeois, and Revolutionaries
Gentlemen, Bourgeois, and Revolutionaries
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The traditional interpretation of the crisis of the Spanish Old Regime is to see it as a revolution carried out by an ascendant bourgeoisie. Professor Cruz challenges this viewpoint by arguing that in Spain, as in the rest of continental Europe, a national bourgeoisie did not exist before the second half of the nineteenth century. Consequently, the model of bourgeois revolution proves inadequate to explain any movement toward modernisation before 1850. Historiography based on the bourgeois revolution theory portrays Spain as an exceptional model whose main feature is the 'failure' produced by the immobility of its ruling class. This work re-examines that understanding, and relocates Spain in the mainstream for industrialisation, urbanisation and democratisation that characterise the history of modern Europe.
- Based on study of over five hundred merchants, bankers, bureaucrats, and politicians who lived in Madrid
- Challenges the usual model used to describe and explain 19th-century Spanish history
- A contribution to the on-going historical debate about the existence of the 'bourgeois revolution'
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April 2011Adobe eBook Reader
9780511887581
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11 b/w illus. 36 tables
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Careers, Business and Fortunes:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Merchants
- 3. Bankers
- 4. Bureaucrats and professionals
- 5. Politicians
- Part II. The Museum of Families: Strategies of Reproduction:
- 6. Habitus, solidarity and authority
- 7. Kinship, friendship and patronage
- 8. Conclusion: rethinking the Spanish Revolution.
