Presented By: Romance Languages & Literatures
Talk by Professor Julián Casanova: Historia de España en el Siglo XX
Julián Casanova
Join us for a talk by professor Julián Casanova Friday, March 17th, 4:00pm-6:00pm in the RLL Commons on the 4th floor of the MLB, or by Zoom. The talk will be in Spanish.
The twentieth century in Spain was exceptionally varied. Many Spaniards were born during a monarchy, that of Alfonso XIII, lived through two dictatorships, a Republic and a civil war, and died with the grandson of Alfonso XIII, Juan Carlos I, as Head of State. The first third of the twentieth century was not the chronicle of a secular frustration foretold which of necessity was to finish up as a collective tragedy; neither was the brief democratic experiment of the Second Republic the inevitable prologue to the civil war; nor was the long, drawn-out Francoist dictatorship a parenthesis which, at the end of the day, favoured economic development and the advent of freedom; and the transition to democracy was never a perfect script previously written from the upper echelons of power. We historians also know that there is no
‘normal’ model of modernisation with which Spain could be contrasted as being an anomalous exception.
The twentieth century in Spain was exceptionally varied. Many Spaniards were born during a monarchy, that of Alfonso XIII, lived through two dictatorships, a Republic and a civil war, and died with the grandson of Alfonso XIII, Juan Carlos I, as Head of State. The first third of the twentieth century was not the chronicle of a secular frustration foretold which of necessity was to finish up as a collective tragedy; neither was the brief democratic experiment of the Second Republic the inevitable prologue to the civil war; nor was the long, drawn-out Francoist dictatorship a parenthesis which, at the end of the day, favoured economic development and the advent of freedom; and the transition to democracy was never a perfect script previously written from the upper echelons of power. We historians also know that there is no
‘normal’ model of modernisation with which Spain could be contrasted as being an anomalous exception.
Livestream Information
ZoomMarch 17, 2023 (Friday) 4:00pm
Meeting ID: 99351850534
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