Guerra civil y contrarrevolución en España y en la Europa del Sur en el siglo XIX

Abstract

The «Civil War» denomination had usually been given –along the Spanish history – to the exclusive period of conflict of 1936-1939. However, Spain was suffering the effects of a large civil war, discontinuous but persistently, in the most of the XIX century. Carlist wars were the main expression of those conflicts within Spain. Any interpretation of a Spanish XIX century that emphasize the fratricidal component about the confrontation, doesn’t mean a kind of positive or negative valuation about the past. Neither turns it to exceptional. Spain shares with South Europe countries – Portugal, Spain, France, Italy –, the characteristic of having suffered in the XIX century, an important civil war, whose structure was around the axis of revolution-counter-revolution.

Keywords

• counter-revolution
• Civil war
• carlism