The rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and from continual contact with outside influences. This updated edition traces that history from prehistoric times to the present, focusing particularly on culture, society, politics, and personalities. Written in an engaging style, it introduces readers to key themes that have shaped Spain's history and culture. These include its varied landscapes and climates; the impact of waves of diverse human migrations; the importance of its location as a bridge between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and Europe and Africa; and religion, particularly militant Catholic Christianity and its centuries of conflict with Islam and Protestantism, as well as debates over the place of the church in modern Spain. Illustrations, maps and a guide to further reading, major cultural figures, and places to see make the history of this fascinating country come alive.

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A Concise History of Spain

This special issue, which arises from the 2008 symposium “La mala vida in the Hispanic World”,1 brings together a number of contributions that examine the issues of social deviancy and marginality 

“la mala vida”: source and focus of degeneration, degeneracy and decline

This article takes as a starting point the notion that the Spanish post-imperial imagination after 1898 included the period’s preoccupation with the rise of Spain’s peripheral separatisms and the idea of Spanish national disintegration as the last phase of the country’s imperial decline. The article traces the manifestation of this internal imperial imagination in Ortega y Gasset’s Espana invertebrada (1922) and its reverberations in the writings on Catalan-Castilian relations by Ernesto Gimenez Caballero and Jaume Vicens Vives, which interact explicitly with Ortega’s text. Further, the article analyses the competitive power play present in the Spanish and Catalan twentieth-century national imagination, where symbolic evocations of empire function as manifestations of a coveted masculine power that are used to convey different political solutions to Spain’s internal national conflict.

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El imperio interno: Discursos sobre masculinidad e imperio en los imaginarios nacionales español y catalán del siglo XX

This paper traces the fragility of the subject in the period extending from the aftermath of the Sexenio through to the early twentieth century. In particular, two case studies are focused upon: the question of gender “deviance” and the figure of the genius, in order to understand how medicine participated in the construction of “outsider” identities within the context of the emerging liberal order. How did liberal rationales exclude or curtail certain wayward expressions of identity and subjectivity? What consequences did the marking of “excessive” figures or outsiders have for notions of inclusiveness and citizenship within the late-nineteenth-century liberal order? By concentrating primarily on medical texts and journals published during the period, this study builds on existing research to tease out answers to these questions.

Liberal governmentality in Spain: bodies, minds, and the medical construction of the “outsider,” 1870–1910

assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (forthcoming, Oxford). His works have appeared in PMLA, The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, James Joyce Quarterly, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and 100 Escritores del siglo XX. He is the book review editor for Critical Quarterly. modernism / modernity volume nineteen, number two, pp 255–275. © 2012

Joyce and the Spanish Ulysses

Introduction - the historical background to the crisis of 1898, Joseph Harrison introduction - the intellectual debate, Alan Hoyle. Part 1 Regenerationism: tackling national decadence -economic regenerationism in Spain after the colonial debacle, Joseph Harrison Unamuno and the Restoration political project - a reevaluation, Stephen Roberts "amor y pedagogia" - an object lesson in biography, Gordon Minter horrible children, Nicholas Round Ramiro de Maetzu - Hispanidad and the search for a surrogate imperialism, Alistair Hennessy. Part 2 Modernism: El "98" que nunca existio, Javier Blasco authority or authenticity? the battle of the cultures at the millennial crossroads, Alison Sinclair the "feminine element" - "fin de siecle" Spain, modernity and the woman writer, Susan Kirkpatrick deconstructing the binaries of "enfrentismo" - Jose-Maria Llanas Aguilaniedo's "Navegar pintoresco" and the finisecular novel, Richard Dardwell noventaiocho y novela - lo viejo y lo nuevo, Alex Longhurst the function of landscape in Baroja's "La lucha por la vida", Alan Hoyle constructing the 98 - Perez de Ayala's 1942 prologue to "Troteras y danzaderas", John Macklin la percepcion sensorial y el texto modernista, German Gullon modernism and imperialism, Patricia McDermott. Part 3 Postcolonialism: the Cuban search for national identity, Tony Kapcia the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98) in West Indian literature, Emilio Jorge Rodriguez el discurso femenino finisecular en Cuba - Aurelia del Castillo y otras voces en torno al 98, Mirta Yanez popular and intellectual responses to 1898 in Puerto Rico, John D. Perivolaris Jose Rizal, the Philippines and 1898, Bill Watson.

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