History

Innovación y creatividad en el aula; desde todas las instancias educativas es lo que se está solicitando últimamente. En este sentido vamos a servirnos de una herramienta excepcional para llevar a cabo la enseñanza de la Historia del Tiempo Presente en el aula: la fotografía.

Realización de trabajo grupal: elaboración de presentación sobre la temática de la Unidad Didáctica.
Desarrollo del conflicto bélico, comenzando por el Alzamiento del General Franco, analizando causas de la contienda, conformación de los frentes de guerra y ordenación de la España Nacional y la España Republicana. Terminaremos con la descripción de la victoria final de los nacionales y un breve análisis de las consecuencias del conflicto.

¿Hemos comenzado demasiado tarde a darnos cuenta de que el actual sistema es insostenible? Muchos analistas opinan que sí. Estos mismos analistas político-económicos sostienen que la educación puede, y debe convertirse en una poderosa herramienta para que el  Desarrollo Sostenible se convierta en un futuro no muy lejano en una  nueva forma de organización social y económica.

Procesos y contextos educativos Aprendizaje cooperativo (Guerra Civil Española en tu localidad).
Los alumnos llevarán a cabo un trabajo cooperativo, con un horizonte a medio plazo, con un ámbito espacial donde se trabajará tanto dentro como fuera del aula, y en el que nuestros alumnos deberán abordar distintos tareas: escritos, búsqueda de datos y fuentes históricas, elaboración de esquemas y trabajo con herramientas on-line.

El proceso de comunicación que se lleva a cabo en el aula entre profesores y alumnos tiene mucha más importancia de la que se le suele dar. Así, para transmitir información de forma recíproca, acudimos tanto al lenguaje verbal, como al gesticular. Debemos indicar que tan importante es uno como el otro.

Ni que decir tiene que la aparición de la moneda en el mundo ibérico, al igual que ha sucedido previamente en otras áreas del Mediterráneo, es uno de los hechos históricos de mayor importancia. El hecho de que los griegos fueran los que introdujeran la moneda en Iberia, no debemos separarlo de las circunstancias socio-económicas que le llevaron a ello: el carácter de la economía urbana que se llevaba a cabo en sus colonias, así como el intercambio de artículos, géneros y todo tipo de mercadería con los habitantes de las ciudades.

This piece ties the work of a central figure of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos’ Informe de la Ley Agraria, to the European currents of philosophical and economic thought outlined by Albert O. Hirschman in his seminal work The Passions and the Interests. This reading emphasises the importance of a previously ignored aspect of the Informe, namely that of Ancient Rome, which Jovellanos repeatedly draws on to develop his ideas on national happiness. Jovellanos then constitutes a Spanish exponent of the debate that Hirschman understood to have developed mainly between France and Scotland.

This article contributes to the recent historiography on Enlightenment plans for European peace by shedding light on the political and intellectual work of the neglected Spanish minister and intellectual José Carvajal y Lancaster. The article begins by outlining the intellectual context surrounding the War of Spanish Succession, and proceeds to analyse the ways that Carvajal deployed, both in his texts and in power, Enlightenment ideals to reform the Spanish Empire and achieve perpetual peace in Europe. The ideas of his first work, his Testamento Político, revealed the ways that the logic of joint-stock companies could catalyse the reform of the Spanish Empire. His measures in government, in turn, illustrated how international cooperation could be mutually beneficial, but turned on his fraught relationship with the future Marquis of Pombal. Finally, his text Mis Pensamientos, written in 1753, envisaged a formal commercial and political coalition between the Spanish and the British Empires. Carvajal’s vision for European peace was at once utopian and clear-eyed, and the ideas behind his plan persist as demanding questions for our age.

This article provides a reappraisal of the political and intellectual uses of the memory of the rump Habsburg Monarchy in eighteenth-century Spain. Drawing on newly discovered archival material, this article recovers the impact of Habsburg Spain on the political imaginary of early eighteenth-century Spanish reformers and political economists, and unearths the legal debates of the 1741 Imperial Diet Election concerning Philip V’s claim to the Austrian Habsburg throne. This reconsideration sheds light on the origins of the early Spanish Enlightenment, and emphasises the centrality of the debates of those political economists, jurists, ministers, who propelled Enlightenment reforms in early eighteenth-century Spain.

In early eighteenth-century Spain, political writings drew on contemporary fears of sleep to denote political deceit. A political vocabulary based on sleep and slumber paved the way for early modern European and peninsular conceptualisations of Spain. In mid-eighteenth-century political texts, the political use of the term shifted and became central to the condemnation of negligence. By the nineteenth century, writers superimposed medieval and orientalist dreamscapes on earlier portrayals of Spain as a land colonised by sleep. Both modern depictions and historiographical constructs about Spain reflect the accumulating effect of such narratives, shrouded by the rationalising power of terms such as decline and decadence.

This article provides a reappraisal of the history of proyectismo. Scholars have employed the concept to categorise early eighteenth-century Spanish authors and reforms, and have thereby severed them from their historical context. This article explores the imperial origins of this political culture by shedding light on the generation of knowledge in early eighteenth-century diplomatic and imperial spaces. The article focuses on the overlooked thinker Álvaro José Navia-Osorio y Vigil, Marquis of Santa Cruz de Marcenado (1684–1732) – long considered to be a proyectista – and his appeal to the Spanish Republic of Letters to assist him in his project for a universal dictionary; an enterprise that predated Chamber’s Cyclopedia and Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. Marcenado’s contributions to the establishment of Spanish intellectual connections with foreign thinkers were, moreover, symptomatic of the political approach of early eighteenth-century ilustrados – transterritorial, transnational, and transversal thinkers who drew on the peninsula’s ties with the Flanders and Italy to revitalise the intellectual life of Spain. These thinkers recovered the study of Muslim Spain, and envisioned the establishment of councils and academies in Mexico and Peru. The Spanish Enlightenment, then, originated in the early eighteenth-century from their rediscovery of the Spanish Republic of Letters.

This article recovers the transnational historical approach of the eighteenth-century Piedmontese thinker Carlo Denina (1731-1813) and his Lettres Critiques. The Lettres, which have remained largely overlooked to this day, addressed a number of cultural debates on the epistemology of the Encyclopédie, the art of translation, and European geopolitics, by drawing on a transnational approach to the history of Europe. This article frames Denina’s transnational gaze in the context of early modern concerns over information overload and eighteenth-century ideas of cultural superiority and alterity. The article follows the ways the Lettres Critiques responded to three querelles: Morvilliers’ 1782 rhetorical attack on Spain, German debates on the merits of French culture and the nature of knowledge, and Madrid’s protracted response to William Robertson’s History of America (1777). The article sheds light on an overlooked eighteenth-century vision of transnational history as a solution to embryonic forms nationalism and the politicization of knowledge.