La historiografía reciente sobre el primer carlismo (2006-2018)

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the latest publications on the first Carlism and to know what the current state of affairs is. To do this, more than 300 works have been consulted and the authors, the study topics and the interpretations have been analyzed. In this way we see that there are three types of historians of Carlism and that the group to which they belong influences the kind of publications, the themes and the interpretations of each one. As for the subjects, there is a great variety of them, being the most frequent the biographies, the military accounts and the local, county and historiographic studies. On the other hand, although there are new approaches and some gaps have been filled, there are still fields and geographic spaces that have been little studied. It should also be noted that most of the publications are merely descriptive ones and less than half of the authors try to explain the Carlist phenomenon. Those who do it are divided into several currents, the most numerous being the right-wing carlists (more frequent among amateurs) and the eclectic one (which predominates among university professors). Finally, it is worth noting that the old debates continue and that in recent years there have been hardly any developments in the interpretation of Carlism.