Popular political participation and the democratic imagination in Spain : from crowd to oeople, 1766-1868 / Pablo Sánchez León.
Sánchez León, Pablo, author.
2020
JN8341 .S26 2020
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Title Popular political participation and the democratic imagination in Spain : from crowd to oeople, 1766-1868 / Pablo Sánchez León.
Author Sánchez León, Pablo, author.
ISBN 9783030525965 (electronic book)
3030525961 electronic book
9783030525958
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52596-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2020]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 363 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-52596-5 doi
Call Number JN8341 .S26 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.0420946
Summary This book addresses the changing relationships among political participation, political representation, and popular mobilization in Spain from the 1766 protest in Madrid against the early Bourbon reforms until the citizen revolution of 1868 that first introduced universal suffrage and led to the ousting of the monarchy. Popular Participation and the Democratic Imagination in Spain shows that a notion of the crowd internally dividing the concept of people existed before the advent of Liberalism, allowing for the enduring subordination of popular participation to representation in politics. In its wider European and colonial American context, the study analyzes semantic changes in a range of cultural spheres, from parliamentary debate to historical narrative and aesthetics. It shows how Liberalism had trouble reproducing the legitimacy of limited suffrage and traces the evolution of an imagination on democracy that would allow for the reconfiguration of an all-encompassing image of the people eventually overcoming representative government. Focused on the nation and identities, Spanish historiography had a pending debt with that other historical subject of modernity, the people. With this book, Pablo Sanchez Leon starts cancelling the debt with an innovative methodology combining conceptual history with social and political history. Brilliantly, this books also proposes a novel chronology for modern history and renewed categories of analysis. In many senses, this is an extraordinarily renovating senior work. Jose Maria Portillo Valdes, University of the Basque Country, Spain. This book by Pablo Sanchez Leon is an original and detailed study of one of the essential components of modernity, the relation between the concepts of plebe and pueblo. The author shows that plebe and people were shaped in a process of mutual differentiation and how the enduring tension between them deeply marked out the evolution of Spanish politics from the end of the Old Regime and throughout the 19th century. As the author brilliantly argues, such tension is tightly imbricated with the enduring dilemma between representation and participation underlying modern political systems. Through a historical analysis of the influence of people and plebe over Spanish, the book makes clear the degree to which the power of language contributes to shape political actors and institutional frames. Miguel Angel Cabrera Professor, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. This is a book for exploring (from current needs) the history of political participation in Spanish society in order to rethink the very notion of modern citizenship. Maria Sierra, University of Seville, Spain. Motivated by the current crisis in political representation in parliamentary democracies, this work by Pablo Sanchez Leon departs from the process of construction of modern citizenship. Representation, participation and mobilization are put into play as an interactive triad whose dynamics and changing conceptualization have the key to the social, political and cultural changes between the Old Regime and the early establishment of democracy in 1868. The They do not represent us! and other current claims for deliberative democracy provide the guiding thread for a demanding research on the tension between representation and participation shaping the period 1766-1868. The work reflects on the relevance of popular participation and, in presenting the modern history of Spain as singular and relevant on its own, provides an account of the building of modern citizenship. Pablo Fernandez Albaladejo, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain This exciting book is both topical and historiographically valuable. It offers a fresh perspective on current debates about the limits of representation and the pros and cons of participation; it makes Spanish political culture in the age of revolutions accessible to anglophone readers, and it engagingly illustrates one way of doing the history of concepts. Recommended on all three counts. Joanna Innes, Oxford University Pablo Sanchez Leon is a researcher at the Centro de Humanidades CHAM of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has published extensively about the history of social movements in Spain and works on the relations between language and identity. He is coeditor of Palabras que atan [Words that bind] (Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2015).
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Historizing the Language of Modern Citizenship
Representation and Participation at the Crossroads
The Differentiation Between Representation and Participation as a Modern Phenomenon
Democratic Imagination in the Passage to Modernity
The Inclusion of the Crowd as a Contingent Process
Spain, 1766-1868: Democracy in the Struggle for the Meaning of Citizenship
Works Cited
Chapter 2: Order: From Plebeian Disorder to Popular Citizenship-Constitutional Imagination Between Contexts, 1766-1814

Regime Changes and the Resignification of the Legacies of the Past
Disorder, Restoration, and Change: The Old Regime Re-signified, 1766-1774
Mobilization and Participation Without Representation: The Coining of the Plebe, 1766-1808
Constitutional Crisis, Popular Power, and Democracy-in-Corporation: 1808-1814
Epilogue and Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 3: Subject: Education, Taxed Wealth, Capacity, Roots-Citizenship Criteria from the Enlightenment to Liberalism, 1780s-1840s
Political Crises and Communal-Based Criteria for Citizenship

Interest Without Ownership: Citizenship Based on Education up to Early Liberalism
Rent Without Culture: Political Exclusion Based on Property in Isabelline Liberalism
Rootedness with Capacity: The Inclusive Citizenship of Evolving Doceañismo
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 4: Space: The Spectre of Plebeian Tyranny-Popular Participation, Radical Leadership, and the Revolutions of 1848
Historicizing the Semantic Field of Populism
Plebeian Tyranny, a Legacy of the Old Regime
The Struggle over the Meaning of Democracy in Post-1812 Spanish Liberalism

Spain and 1848 as a Watershed in the History of the Semantic Field of Democracy
The Transnational 1848 and the Protagonism of the Crowd as a Subaltern Group
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 5: Time: The Fatalist Loop-Historical Culture and Popular Empowerment in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Citizenship, Historical Culture, and Empowerment: Now and Then
Fatalism in the Intellectual and Ideological Debates During the Isabelline Period
Conservative Hegemony and Antipopular Prejudice
The Discursive Loop of Juan Donoso Cortés in Context

The Semantic Turn of Fatalism in Historical Narrative
Epilogue and Conclusions
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Chapter 6: Identity: Enraged Citizens or Subaltern Crowd? Popular Mobilization, Representation, and Participation in the Spanish Revolution of 1854
The Limits of Representation in Modern Citizenship
The Value of Unity and the Meaning of Democracy Among the Early Democrats
Seville, 1854: Radical Identities Without Party Representation
Madrid, 1854: Plebeian Identities Without Discursive Representation
The Aftermath of the Revolution: Unity Beyond Monarchy
Conclusions
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