The four decades 1890-1930 constituted a sort of «Axial Age» of modernity, the initial era of «classical modernity,» in the words of Detlev Peukert. During these decades there in some cases introduced, or in other cases, generalized the inventions and technological advances that made the basic differences between traditional life …
Leer más »Visigoths and Asturians reinterpreted: the Spanish “Grand narrative” restored?
Spanish history, like a good many others, has often been made the subject of a «Grand Narrative» of national identity, historical purpose and religious mission. Aspects of this understanding have varied, most notably between liberal nationalists and Catholic traditionalists during the nineteenth century, but for long it constituted a sort …
Leer más »The Comintern and Antifascism in Spain, 1931-1939
Studies on fascism have become ever more numerous and undoubtedly will continue for a very long time, but studies on antifascism are by comparison much less common. This is the case despite the fact that even during the heyday of fascism there were many more antifascists than fascists. Broader studies …
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