The Revolution and the Reaction form an interwined axis that runs through the 19th century in both Europe and America. With this line of research we aim to cover other geographical areas in order to offer an integrated vision of the historical processes and of both realities as a meeting point.
Comparison with democratic processes in Southern Europe and the United States.
Study of the dialectics of continuity, reformism, rupture and revolution between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The study of behaviour and political logic of absolutism and the multiple discourses that emerged as alternatives to it are key.
Relationship between democracy and anarchism in 20th century Spain.
Relationship between the political cultures of socialism and communism with democracy, reformism and social revolution.
To test whether, as some sectors of these political cultures argued, without gender equality a full transition to democracy was possible.
Study of the labour market and urban manufacturing in Mediterranean cities. The impact of the commercial rivalry between Valencia and Alicante on the configuration of the urban network. Foreign mercantile diasporas and changes in consumption and marketing patterns.
The Moorish minority in the Kingdom of Valencia, before and after the explusion, resistance to acculturation, their involvement in banditry and in the nobiliary factions. Captives and slaves. Frenc immigration. The persistence of manifestations of popular culture and its repression.
Study of the construction of national and regional identities in Spain and Europe.
Study of nationalist and fascist political cultures in Europe from a transnational perspective.
Study of the discourses, practices and subjects of the different political cultures of nineteenth-century Europe understood as plural, evolving and constantly conflicting phenomenon. It includes liberal as well as illiberal, republican, democtratic, socialist and anarchist political cultures.
To analyse in what ways left-wing political cultures have or have not collaborated in the dissemination of Spanish national identity, creating new referents and/or adapting pre-existing ones.
Analysis of how Spanish republicanisms conceived their relationship with democracy, including the gender perspective.
Analysis of the trajectories and lineages of the Valencian and Sardinian elites. Social conflict between the estates and the monarchy. Officials and magistrates at the service of the King and the Monarchy. Social implications of the defensive policy in the Mediterranean.
