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La emergencia de dos docenas de nuevas naciones tras la crisis imperial de la Monarquía Católica de 1808 fue un proceso con indudables connotaciones religiosas. En este artículo se muestra cómo la protección del catolicismo se convirtió en elemento fundacional de la adaptación nacionalista a la modernidad en el mundo hispano. El segundo epígrafe analiza ejemplos de exaltación patriótica, así como de movilización bélica de fieles, en clave religiosa. Por último, se apuntan reflexiones sobre los resultados de esas campañas de identificación política de la comunidad de fieles con las nacientes comunidades nacionales en el atlántico hispánico.

Review of: Spain and Its Achilles' Heels: The Strong Foundations of a Country's Weaknesses, Koldo Casla (2021)
Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 219 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-53816-458-7, h/bk, £81.00
ISBN 978-1-53816-459-4, e-book, £35.00

This article examines the relationship of Jeremy Bentham and some of his disciples within Romantic Liberalism in the Mediterranean in the early 1820s. By studying the content of Bentham's correspondence with his collaborators and some Spanish political leaders, the text sheds light on Bentham's ideas on constitutional rule, the independence of Latin America and religious tolerance. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]

The Spanish model revisited / Richard Gunther -- The selection of an electoral system : less consensus, more heresthetics / Jose Ramon Montero and Ignacio Lago -- Interparty consensus and partisanship in Spain's transition to democracy / Bonnie N. Field -- Radicalism without representation : on the character of social movements in the Spanish transition to democracy / Pablo Sanchez Leon -- Children of a lesser god : the political and the pastoral action of the Spanish Catholic Church / Gregorio Alonso -- Salvation by betrayal : the left and the Spanish nation / Alejandro Quiroga -- The Basque experience of the transition to democracy / Diego Muro -- The "pacto de olvido" / Carsten Humlabaek -- Cinema and television in the transition / Paul Julian Smith -- The role of the EEC in the Spanish, Portuguese and Greek transitions / Jose M. Magone -- Democratizing Spain : lessons for international democratic promotion / Omar Encarnacion.

Designed to evaluate the paradigmatic view of the Spanish transition as an ideal model for political and social change, this new and innovative volume appraises Spain's movement to democracy from a variety of important perspectives.

"In March 1812, while Napoleon's brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cádiz. There, as the cornerstone of a government in exile, they drafted and adopted the first liberal constitution in the Hispanic world, a document that became known as the Cádiz Constitution of 1812. The 1812 Constitution was extremely influential in and beyond Europe, and this collection of essays explores how its enduring legacy not only shaped the history of state-building, elections, and municipal governance in Iberian America, but also affected national identities and citizenship as well as the development of race and gender in the region. A bold blueprint for governing a global, heterogeneous monarchy, the Constitution represented a rupture with Spain's Antiguo Regimen (Old Regime) in numerous ways-in the limits it placed on the previously autocratic Bourbon monarchs, in the admission to its governing bodies of deputies from Spain's American viceroyalties as equals, and in its framers' vociferous debate over the status of castas (those of mixed ancestry) and slaves. The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World covers these issues and adopts a transatlantic perspective that recovers the voices of those who created a vibrant political culture accessible to commoners and elite alike. The bicentenary of the Constitution of 1812 offered scholars an excellent moment to reexamine the form and role of constitutions across the Spanish-speaking world. Constitutionalism remains a topic of intense debate in Latin America, while contemporary Spain itself continues to seek ways to balance a strong central government with centripetal forces in its regions, notably the Basque and Catalan provinces. The multifaceted essays compiled here by Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea both shed new light on the early, liberal Hispanic societies and show how the legacies of those societies shape modern Spain and Latin America"--