The problems of the Spanish nation‐building process around 1900

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ID12653271
AuthorsEric Storm (0000-0001-8656-7283, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume6
Issue2
Pages143-156
Publication date2004-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNational Identities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1460-8944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9907
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1460894042000248404
OpenAlexW2103243389
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Most historians acknowledge that the Spanish nation‐building process started late and was neither very profound nor successful. In general, they point to the slow modernisation process or the unwillingness of the elite to explain the weakness of Spanish nationalism in the decades around 1900. However, there are a number of factors that hampered the nation‐building process in Spain that have not received the attention they deserve. In the first instance, the effects of the loss of the last remnants of the Spanish colonial empire in 1898 have generally been underestimated. Another item is the political clientelism that seriously hindered nation‐building activities. A last observation concerns the role of ideology. Nationalism is not a uniform body of thought. In fact, both the right and the left had their own nationalising strategies, resulting in increasing polarisation

Clientelism · Democracy · Elite · Empire · Ideology · Modernization theory · Nation-building · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Law · Nationalism and Cultural Identity · Spanish History and Politics

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