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The early century saw the loss of the bulk of the Spanish colonies in the New World in the 1810s and 1820s, except for Cuba and Puerto Rico. The regency of Maria Christina and the reign of Isabella II brought reforms repelling the extremes of the absolutist Ominous Decade (1823–1833).
The Spanish Republic (Spanish: República Española), historiographically referred to as the First Spanish Republic (Spanish: Primera República), was the political regime that existed in Spain from 11 February 1873 to 29 December 1874.
Apr 18, 2022 · Spanish history since 1808. Publication date. 2000. Topics. Spain -- History -- 19th century, Spain -- History -- 20th century. Publisher. London : Arnold ; New York : Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
In a mounting atmostphere of discontent, a naval mutiny in Cadiz in 1868 finally sparks a nation-wide revolution. Isabella II abdicates and withdraws to France with her 10-year-old son Alfonso. The Cortes, assembling in 1869, votes for a continuation of the monarchy under a different monarch.
For decades since the second half of the nineteenth century, those supporting the most progressive political options in Spain also favoured municipal autonomy and regional devolution, thus bringing together the ideas of democracy and decentralization. Although the federal republic in Spain was short‐lived, its intellectual legacy was long ...
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Alejandro Quiroga. This paper provides an historical overview of Spain's nation-building process from the nineteenth century to the present time.
27. On nineteenth-century Spanish militarism see Eric Christiansen, The Origins of Military Power in Spain, 1800-1854 (London, 1967); Daniel R. Head rick, The Spanish Army, 1868-1898: Structure, Function and Politics (Unpub lished Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1971); and Stanley G. Payne, Politics and the Military in Modern Spain ...
