Independence and Constitution: The Spanish Nationalization of Personal Experience During the Peninsular War and its Aftermath

Author:

Moreno-Almendral Raúl1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Salamanca, Spain

Abstract

The deconstruction of the ‘War of Independence’ (1808–1814) as a Spanish nationalist myth was a necessary step in advancing our knowledge of the history of the Age of Revolutions in Spain and of Spanish nation-building itself. However, it set aside those who had in fact experienced those events through a genuine Spanish nationalized lens. Using a corpus of autobiographical sources written between the 1780s and the 1830s, this paper argues that political concepts of Spanish nationhood were already available before the liberal revolution unleashed by the French invasion, that anti-liberals used the language of nationhood in their ego-documents too, and that ideas of independence and constitution pervaded social cleavages and ideological divides. Arguably, then, the War of Independence had both mythical and real dimensions in terms of the history of national identities. Therefore, the great issue in nineteenth-century Spanish nation-building would have not been a congenital ‘lack’ or ‘weakness’ of nationhood but an intense cultural war for its definition along political lines.

Funder

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

History,Cultural Studies

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