Spanish nationalism
@article{Muro2005SpanishN, title={Spanish nationalism}, author={Diego Muro and Alejandro Quiroga}, journal={Ethnicities}, year={2005}, volume={5}, pages={29 - 9} }
In recent years, it has been a common complaint among scholars to acknowledge the lack of research on Spanish nationalism. This article addresses the gap by giving an historical overview of ‘ethnic’ and ‘civic’ Spanish nationalist discourses during the last two centuries. It is argued here that Spanish nationalism is not a unified ideology but it has, at least, two varieties. During the 19th-century, both a ‘liberal’ and a ‘conservative-traditionalist’ nationalist discourse were formulated and…
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