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National Militia and Royalist Volunteers in Lleida (1820-1841)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:25 +0000

An analysis of the formation of the absolutist and liberal groups in Lleida at the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century reveals a series of clashes between the two groups. If we also compare the socio-professional groups of their members, we can see that the absolutist ranks were made up of families of greater social influence and the peasantry, while the liberals were made up of liberal professionals, artisans and intellectuals.
On the other hand, and despite these social characteristics, 54% of the municipal posts went to the liberals, following the trend of other Catalan town councils of this chronology. This situation led to the founding of the National Militia as a neighbourhood tool (already provided for in the 1812 Constitution) to defend liberalism and its governing institutions in each locality.
The National Militia allowed a large part of the population – most of them as volunteers – to participate in political life as protagonists, especially in the key years of the liberal revolution, between 1833 and 1843. The main problem they faced was the social groups that supported them, with more than 50% of the population of Lleida, dedicated to farming, remaining outside of them.
In this socio-political panorama, Ferdinand VII at the end of 1823 decided to copy the liberal model and created a group for the defence of absolutism, the Royalist Volunteers, thus attracting other sectors of the population that for convenience or ideology were not attracted by the liberal currents.

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Disentailed assets sold in Castile-La Mancha (1836-1844)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:27 +0000

In the liquidation of the Ancien Régime system, three major agrarian reforms were carried out by the liberal governments. The three disentailments had a great socio-economic impact, as the primary sector was the hegemonic sector in the Modern Age: the disentailments of Godoy (1798), of Mendizábal and Espartero (1836-1844) and the General Disentailment (1855-1895). But what were the disentailments? They were measures that put assets belonging to the Church, the municipalities and the aristocracy that could not be bought or sold up for auction. The aim was to liberalise the agrarian sector by changing the ownership of land and to increase the Treasury’s accounts with the auctions. The reality was that the auctioned land was bought back by the same people who owned it, without changing the ownership structures. Moreover, the disentailed collective and communal lands became private property. Wage-earning peasants, for their part, saw their traditional rights eroded as the concept of land ownership changed.
In Castile-La Mancha, the disentailment of 1836 particularly affected the province of Toledo, with 10,586 estates affected, which were valued at 66.9 million reales and sold at auction for 159.8 million reales. These figures for Toledo accounted for 5% of the national total. The province that contributed the least was Albacete with 772 estates valued at 6.7 million and sold for 11.9, a lower percentage improvement than the rest of the provinces (Ciudad Real 3,370 estates valued at 21 million and sold for 54.4; Cuenca 1,463 estates valued at 13.5 and auctioned for almost double that: 24.2; and Guadalajara with 10,354, valued at 20.6 and sold for 36.6). In sum, the disentailed Castilian-La Mancha lands were valued at 129 million and sold for almost 287 million, 9% of the national total.

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Crisis of the Ancient Regime

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:54 +0000

Kairos is an educational project of the National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training of the Ministry of Education, directed by Dr. Antonio Rodríguez de las Heras. Along with methodological contributions aimed at reinforcing the teaching of history, it contains proposals for the development of History content taught in Secondary Education and Baccalaureate. This content refers to the unit “The crisis of the Ancien Régime” for the subject of Spanish History Baccalaureate (2006).

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The Crisis of the Ancient Regime 1808-1833

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:48 +0000

Website of Professor Juan Carlos Ocaña which explains the block of contents on “The crisis of the Ancient Regime 1808-1833”, adapted to the subject of Spanish History of Second Baccalaureate (2005), which includes the following sections: the crisis of 1808: War of Independence and political revolution; The Cortes of Cadiz and the Constitution of 1812; Ferdinand VII: Absolutism and libertarianism. The Emancipation of Latin America.

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