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Pablo Sánchez León

Popular Political Participation and the Democratic Imagination in Spain

Pablo Sánchez León

Popular Political Participation and the Democratic Imagination in Spain From Crowd to People, 1766–1868

Pablo Sánchez León Centro de Humanidades (CHAM) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal Translated from Spanish by Igor Knezevic

ISBN 978-3-030-52595-8    ISBN 978-3-030-52596-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52596-5 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Artokoloro / Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

To “los López” and the people of the AEF from the students strike of ’87 and thereafter, where all this started For León, in transit from adolescent plebe to young people

Preface

The writing of this book was not the outcome of a long-premeditated plan but rather the result of a fortunate discovery. In the summer of 2016 I happened to re-read several conference papers I had written over the previous seven years for international meetings on a variety of themes. Reading them again it occurred to me that a common thread run through them despite focusing on different topics and beyond the fact that they all dealt with the period from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Once this became clear to me, I was able to sketch the outline of a book that was originally projected as a series of independent albeit chronologically overlapping chapters. I presumed that by filling several lacunae they could provide a general picture of the conceptions of political exclusion and popular participation over