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Dissertation Information for Douglas Victor Askman

NAME:
- Douglas Victor Askman

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2001)

ADVISORS:
- Peter Baldwin

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Geoffrey W. Symcox
- Albert Boime

MPACT Status: Complete - Except Indecipherables

Title: The renovation of the European Right: The case of Spanish Carlism, 1868--1872

Abstract: Beginning with the French Revolution of 1789 and continuing throughout the nineteenth century, the basic institutions of the Old Regime were steadily eroded in Western Europe as liberalism increasingly became the dominant ideology of government. However, across Europe traditionalists battled against the rising tiding of liberalism and defended many of the key principles of the Old Regime. In addition, these traditionalists often incorporated within their political programs support for a specific dynastic cause. As a result, European traditionalists are often referred to collectively as legitimists for this desire to enthrone a particular royal claimant whom they believe to be a rightful ruler.

In Spain, legitimists were more commonly called Carlists. Like other European traditionalists, Spanish Carlists have often been discounted as nostalgic dreamers who sought a wholesale return to an irretrievable past and lacked a well-articulated response to liberalism. This analysis is especially relevant to the second half of the nineteenth century as the Old Regime became increasingly anachronistic. However, this study endeavors to demonstrate that in the years immediately after the Spanish Revolution of 1868, Carlism developed a reasoned and sophisticated ideology that took into account the political, social, and economic changes in Spain during the nineteenth century and went far beyond a simple call for a return to the Old Regime. In addition, I suggest that Carlists did not view their movement in isolation during this period and were fully aware of their fellow European legitimists, especially in France,

In order to demonstrate that Spanish traditionalism presented a coherent and comprehensive platform, I have examined four basic topics: (1) the Carlist critique of liberalism, (2) the traditionalist alternative to the liberal political system, (3) the Carlist analysis of important social and economic issues, and (4) the traditionalist movement's participation in the liberal electoral process from 1868 to 1872. Finally, to show that Spanish traditionalists were acutely aware of similar movements in other countries, I have pointed to the links between Carlists and their legitimist counterparts in France, Portugal, and Italy.

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