Studia Historica. Historia Contemporánea https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087 <p><em>Studia Historica. Historia Contemporánea</em> (SHHC) publishes original research papers within the fields of Modern and Contemporary History, Historical Theory and Historiography. It is an open-access journal.</p> <p>It was founded in 1983 by the Modern and Contemporary historians of the University of Salamanca. It publishes one issue per year, which includes a monographic dossier, varia papers and reviews. It uses a double-blind peer review system.</p> <p>SHHC holds the quality award from the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and can be found in the following databases: Periodicals Index Online, Ulrich's Web, Historical Abstracts, CARHUS Plus + 2018, ERIHPlus, ÍnDICEs CSIC, DOAJ, Dialnet, Dulcinea, MIAR and LATINDEX.</p> Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca es-ES Studia Historica. Historia Contemporánea 0213-2087 Introduction to the Themed Issue. Reforming Cities in Liberal Spain (1875-1936): Space and Political Action https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31979 Santiago de Miguel Salanova Jorge Ramón Ros Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-01-02 2025-01-02 42 7 13 10.14201/shhc202442713 A New Politics for the Town: Political Culture and Municipal Action of the Republicans in Guadalajara https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31673 <p class="p1">In 1899, the Republicans gained the municipal elections in Guadalajara. The republican victory, repeated in 1901, was the result of an intense mobilisation, led by a generation of leaders who sought to overcome the old ways of historical republicanism. The Republican majority challenged the hegemony that the Count of Romanones and the liberals had imposed on the Town Council, as it introduced new policies into the local agenda, aimed at good government, budgetary and fraud control, extension of health care and education and secularisation, provoking the intervention of the Government to control the Town Council. Based on the election records, the minutes of Town Council sessions and the press, the political and governmental culture of the republicans is analysed in a small town where, despite the overwhelming power of the caciques, practices typical of modern mass politics were beginning to emerge.</p> Javier San Andrés Corral Copyright (c) 2024 Javier San Andrés Corral https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-01-02 2025-01-02 42 15 37 10.14201/shhc2024421537 Elections and Local Power in Bilbao between 1917 and 1936: An Urban and Social Perspective https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31679 <p class="p1">This research proposes an exercise that crosses four key variables: geographical origin, urban spaces, social groups, and politics. Their correlation explains the changes in political cultures and local power, as well as those specific to Bilbao’s society, a city marked by strong social inequalities and influenced by a context of world war, social demands, pandemic, and political change.</p> José María Beascoechea Gangoiti Susana Serrano Abad Copyright (c) 2024 José María Beascoechea Gangoiti, Susana Serrano Abad https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 39 66 10.14201/shhc2024423966 The “Internal Reform” of Valencia and the Production of Problematic Spaces: the Plots of San Francisco and the Neighbourhood of Pescadores (1880-1906) https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31569 <p class="p1">This article discusses the projection and legitimization of several urban reforms in the city center of Valencia (Spain) during the Bourbon Restoration. Specifically, it analyses the process of socio-spatial stigmatization of two interconnected neuralgic zones (the Pescadores quarter and the ancient grounds of the Convento de San Francisco) located between the city council and the main railway station. To this end, it explores how the urban development interventions on them were influenced by various pejorative perceptions elaborated by journalists, police forces and local politicians about their urban fabric, the socio-economical activities of their inhabitants and the hypothetical consequences of their existence for the city. Moreover, it studies the sources and key actors of social conflict in both areas, subjected to selective policing and urban degradation processes.</p> Jorge Ramón Ros Copyright (c) 2024 Jorge Ramón Ros https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 67 89 10.14201/shhc2024426789 Municipalities as Agents of Political Integration. Palma de Mallorca, 1890-1923 https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31637 <p>This work is based on the consideration of local/municipal power as an essential element for the construction and consolidation of the liberal State and not as its antithesis. Accordingly, the central government is not understood only as a domain external to the locality in permanent struggle with the power arising from the municipality, but rather they are part of the same state system, in constant competition and collaboration, in such a way that they both reinforce each other. That is, the State must be considered, following Pierre Bourdieu, as a field of power rather than a compact block, where specific forms of capital compete. Specifically, we will focus on the analysis of the integration factors in the State that municipal policy entailed during the Restoration, especially after the implementation of universal male suffrage, using the case of Palma, capital of the province of the Balearic Islands.</p> Pere Salas-Vives Copyright (c) 2024 Pere Salas-Vives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 91 112 10.14201/shhc20244291112 Government, Administration and Municipal Control of Regulated Prostitution in the Modern City. Barcelona and the Special Hygiene Service (1889-1892) https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31675 <p class="p1"><span class="s1">This article examines the phenomenon of the regulation of prostitution in Barcelona between 1889 and 1892. The historiographical interest of this period is explained by the fact that during those years the activity was under the direct jurisdiction of the local authorities, who were responsible for the regularisation of special hygiene services by virtue of the publication of the Royal Order of 4 January 1889 by the Ministry of the Interior. Analysis of this process of municipalisation requires the exploration of the characteristics of the project that Barcelona City Council developed to deal with a health and public order problem that had grown in parallel with the expansion of the city’s population. Understanding this process requires studying the dynamics of government, administration and control of prostitution, woven both in the sphere of municipal policy and in the development of everyday life in the city.</span></p> Santiago de Miguel Salanova Copyright (c) 2024 Santiago de Miguel Salanova https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 113 143 10.14201/shhc202442113143 The sale of the Magistral Right in the Historical Archive of Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real): Adjudication and Process https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31474 <p class="p1">The main aim of this work is to analyse and study the institution of the “derecho maestral” in the municipality of Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real). We will proceed to deal with its concept, its origin and evolution, as well as its transcendence and the trail of legal-social conflicts left behind, determining the agricultural structure of the population.</p> Jesús Viñas González Copyright (c) 2024 Jesús Viñas González https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 147 170 10.14201/shhc202442147170 Orientalism and Spanish Nationalism: some Considerations on Francisco Javier Simonet and Spanish Arabism https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31435 <p class="p1">in the config.uratio.n of Spanish national identity, the interplay between East and West plays a substantially more important role than in other European regions. During the 19th century, with the rise of romanticism and oriental trends, Arabists strove to rescue and situate the Muslim past of the Peninsula in a comfortable place within the founding fiction of the Spanish nation. Far from finding common ground, Arabists engaged in a dialogue with the romantic myth, both including and excluding the Andalusian past from their national narratives, which were closely linked to a particular political project. Such was the case of Francisco Javier Simonet, whose discourses can be analysed in both their liberal and traditionalist facets. Focusing on his texts written around the African War (1859-1860), the aim of this article is to provide a few considerations on the link between Arabism and the creation of an imperial nation discourse.</p> Fernando Granell Olszewski Copyright (c) 2024 Fernando Granell Olszewski https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 171 193 10.14201/shhc202442171193 The Human Data of the Battle of Mallorca (1936): Combatants and Casualties on Each Side https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31383 <p class="p1">The Battle of Mallorca (August-September 1936) was an important offensive by the Spanish Republic with the participation of all the arms of the army and the militias that ended in failure. Historiography has debated the figures for participation and casualties with very different data. The authors have carried out for the first time a quantitative (and nominal) study based on all available archival sources and reveal that the number of troops and casualties (dead and wounded) on each side were similar. However, mortality was much higher (more than three times as high) on the republican side due to health logistics and prisoner executions. The Balearic Government and the Generalitat de Catalunya are working to identify the remains of the graves from this battle.</p> Manuel Aguilera Povedano Gonzalo Berger Mulattieri Copyright (c) 2024 Manuel Aguilera, Gonzalo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 195 219 10.14201/shhc202442195219 Cuando el humo se alza. La violencia iconoclasta y anticlerical en Vallecas durante la guerra civil (1936-1939) https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31403 <p>Anti-religious violence occupied a central role in revolutionary justice. The religious were the first victim, in general, and, in some cases, the only one in the towns of the Republican rear. The churches were seized by the various committees and micro-powers that took effective control of the streets. They put them at the service of the needs of the town, turning them into community spaces. This article will analyse the main anti-religious actions in the Municipality of Vallecas and the reason for this violence and its supporters or detractors. A novel aspect offered by the text is the possibility of comparing republican and Francoist sources on this violence and assessing the differences in judicial investigations.</p> Fernando Jiménez Herrera Copyright (c) 2024 Fernando Jiménez Herrera https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 221 242 10.14201/shhc202442221242 The Catholic Church and Resistance to Dictatorships. The German (1935-1939) and Spanish (1962-1966) cases https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31329 <p class="p1">The objective of this essay is to present a comparative study focused on the Catholic resistance to two fascist dictatorial regimes in two chronological periods in which both dictatorships were fully consolidated in their respective countries. A special emphasis will be placed on exposing the main characteristics of both resistances; analyze what were the actions development to oppose the government persecutions; and show the main similarities and differences between both resistance models.</p> Javier Pinilla Palomino Copyright (c) 2024 Javier Pinilla Palomino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 243 264 10.14201/shhc202442243264 Florentino Pérez Embid and the “Amigos de Maeztu” https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31444 <p>This article will show the influence of the person and thought of Ramiro de Maeztu on the work of Florentino Pérez Embid. In particular, I examine the relationship between Pérez Embid and the “Amigos de Maeztu”, an association formed by supporters of the traditional monarchy who met to spread Maestu's ideas through magazines, books, and pamphlets. These activities included the magazine <em>Reino</em></p> Onésimo Díaz Hernández Copyright (c) 2024 Onésimo Díaz Hernández https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 265 283 10.14201/shhc202442265283 Federico Silva Muñoz and the Spanish Transition. When Francoist Liberalization Collided with Democracy https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31452 <p>Federico Silva Muñoz was one of the most recognized voices of late Franco’s aperturismo. Known by the nickname «Efficiency Minister» for his management of the Public Works portfolio, the Catholic sectors of the regime did not take long to appeal to Silva as the highest representative of the aperturismo horizon and, later, of reformism. However, when the construction of the new democracy began, Silva seemed anchored in the narrow coordinates of the regime, becoming one of the founders of People’s Alliance during its neo-Franco origins. Frustrated with the evolution of change and contrary to the Constitution, he ended up placed on the margins of the system as a representative of an anti-constitutional reactionary right. The journey through the biographical trajectory of Federico Silva during the Spanish Transition will shed light on the complex evolution of the aperturismo discourse, its origin, evolution and limitations, as well as the difficult structuring of the Spanish right in the face of the new democracy.</p> Adrián Magaldi Fernández Copyright (c) 2024 Adrian Magaldi Fernández https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 285 307 10.14201/shhc202442285307 Children Victims of Ethnonationalist Terrorism. The cases of eta and the ira https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31376 <p class="p1">The indiscriminate nature of the terrorist actions of eta and the ira against the civilian population claimed the lives of many minors, some children of members of the army and the police. Attacks difficult to justify that questioned the moral position of both organizations. The comparison between the two terrorist groups will give us the opportunity to study the typology of these attacks, as well as their justification discourse and how to deal with the consequences of these actions.</p> Pablo García Varela Copyright (c) 2024 Pablo García Varela https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 309 331 10.14201/shhc202442309331 D’Aunet, Léonie (2023): Viaje de una mujer a Spitzberg (ed. Rodríguez Varela, Rita). Berlín: Peter Lang. 199 pp. isbn: 9783631900871. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31981 Luis Arias González Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-01-02 2025-01-02 42 335 338 Martykánová, Darina (2023): Los ingenieros en España. El nacimiento de una élite. Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco. 341 pp. isbn: 978-84-1319-593-3. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31693 <p>Reseña de dicho libro</p> Carlos Larrinaga Copyright (c) 2024 Carlos Larrinaga https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 339 341 Roldán Cañizares, Enrique (2023): La República romana de 1849 y su Constitución. Una utopía en la Italia del «Risorgimento». Sevilla: Athenaica. 130 pp. isbn: 978-84-19874-03-0. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31644 Manuel Carbajosa Aguilera Copyright (c) 2024 Manuel Carbajosa Aguilera https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 342 344 García Moscardó, Ester (2021): Roque Barcia Martí. Auge y caída de un nuevo mesías revolucionario. Granada: Comares. 304 pp. isbn: 978-84-1369-156-5. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31786 Sergio Sánchez Collantes Copyright (c) 2024 Sergio Sánchez Collantes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 345 348 Martykánová, Darina y Walin, Marie (coords.): Ser hombre. Las masculinidades en la España del siglo xix. Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2023. 356 pp. isbn: 978-84-472-2465-4. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31573 Carmen Chamarro Santamatilde Copyright (c) 2024 Carmen Chamarro Santamatilde https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 349 351 Rabaté, Colette y Rabaté, Jean-Claude (2023): Unamuno contra Miguel Primo de Rivera. Un incesante desafío a la tiranía. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg. 312 pp. isbn: 9788419738035. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31982 Raúl Moreno Almendral Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-01-02 2025-01-02 42 352 353 Lower, Wendy (2022): La fosa. Almería: Confluencias. 306 pp. isbn: 9788412455946. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31428 Igor Barrenechea Copyright (c) 2024 Igor Barrenechea https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 354 355 Sanz Hoya, Julián (2022): España en camisa azul: Falange, cultura política y poderes locales. Granada: Editorial Comares. 164 pp. isbn: 9788413694788. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31667 Antonio Castilla Martín Copyright (c) 2024 Antonio Castilla Martín https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 356 359 Kinstler, Linda (2024): Ven a este tribunal y llora. Barcelona: Gatopardo Ediciones. 346 pp. isbn: 9788412740325. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31714 Igor Barrenechea Copyright (c) 2024 Igor Barrenechea https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 360 361 Rodríguez Jiménez, José Luis (2024): Bajo el manto del Caudillo. Nazis, fascistas y colaboracionistas en la España franquista. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. 422 pp. isbn: 9788411486101. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31674 <p>La última obra publicada por el profesor José Luis Rodríguez Jiménez, <em>Bajo el manto del Caudillo</em>, es el magnífico fruto de un concienzudo y largo trabajo de investigación. El autor ha utilizado múltiples fuentes, bastantes de ellas inéditas, como las del Ministerio de Exteriores, para luego elaborar una narración histórica bien escrita, atractiva y con vocación divulgativa que, además, arroja nueva luz sobre la intrahistoria de la dictadura franquista, sus conexiones internacionales y la influencia de la vieja ultraderecha sobre la nueva generación de los años sesenta.</p> Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla Copyright (c) 2024 Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 362 364 Alonso Dávila, Isabel (coord.) (2023): Plaza de los Lobos 1968-1977: memorias de estudiantes antifranquistas de la Universidad de Granada, Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada. 265 pp. isbn 978-84-338-7299-9. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31702 <p>Review of the book ISABEL ALONSO DÁVILA (coord.), <em>Plaza de los Lobos 1968-1977: Memorias de estudiantes antifranquistas de la Universidad de Granada</em>, Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2023. 265 pp. ISBN 978-84-338-7299-9. &nbsp;</p> Alberto García Molinero Copyright (c) 2024 Alberto García Molinero https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 365 368 Ortega López, Teresa María; Cabana Iglesia, Ana; Cabezas Vega, Laura y Canalejo Alonso, Silvia (2024): Mujeres y agricultura en la política española del siglo xx. Madrid: Cátedra. 312 pp. isbn: 9788437647074. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31984 Cristóbal Martínez Molina Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-01-02 2025-01-02 42 369 371 González Cuevas, Pedro Carlos (2022): Historia de la Derecha Española. De la Ilustración a la actualidad (1789-2022). Madrid: Espasa. 1080 pp. isbn: 978-84-670-6974-7. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31985 María Gajate Bajo Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-01-02 2025-01-02 42 372 374 Pinto Tortosa, Antonio J (2023): Una breve historia social del trabajo. Madrid: Ediciones Complutense. 254 pp. isbn: 978-84-669-3818-1. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31986 Moisés Rodríguez Escobar Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-01-02 2025-01-02 42 375 378 Book Review: "Bilbao. Desarrollo urbano y desigualdad en una ciudad industrial (1876-1936)" https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0213-2087/article/view/31977 Nuria Rodríguez Martín Copyright (c) 2024 Nuria Rodríguez-Martín https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-12-27 2024-12-27 42 379 382