Catalan Historical Review (Nov 2021)

Antiliberal political traditionalism: The Catalan Carlists

  • Lluís Ferran Toledano González

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2436/20.1000.01.177
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14
pp. 69 – 88

Abstract

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Catalan Carlism was one of the most prominent versions of European anti-liberalism and counter-revolution. This article delves into a debate on the traditional and/or modern nature of the social movements; the relationship between religion, politics and identity; the impact of the civil wars on the construction of nation-states; and the exercise of power and violence. In a context of factories and workers, Carlism built the longest insurrectional guerrilla culture in all of Europe and became the theatre of operations of the “international white”

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