This blog studies the corporatism and professional groups during the fall of the Ancien Régime and the development of the liberalism (1800-1945). Throughout a long term analysis looks at the resistances and the impulse of the progresses’ ideas. The subjects analysed are the professional groups, the corporatism, the associations, the politics of the state to promote their ideas, the professional and peer groups, and the behaviour in the private life (family, servants...). We seek the clues that, in an advanced moment of the constitutional system as 1920, allow in Europe the triumph of the dictatorships (as in Spain with Primo de Rivera in 1923, or Franco in 1936). Then, war and violence won a parliamentary system which was triyng to be established since 1808. The explanations should be deep inside the external boundaries of the democracy.This site is for researchers and public in general who is interested in the process of evolution of democracy and the real systems and schemes that manage to broken that contemporary ideology (all the way through war or dictatorship).

Este blog parte del estudio histórico de la contemporaneidad. Analiza en el tiempo largo de caída del Antiguo Régimen y desenvolvimiento del Liberalismo Constitucional las formas de unión social y profesional (1800-1945). El objetivo es encontrar qué elementos fueron involucionistas y cuáles progresistas con las nuevas ideas post-revolucionarias, sea a través de estructuras marcadas por el Estado, sea a través del entorno privado, para encontrar las claves históricas -en la larga duración- del triunfo y mantenimiento de las dictaduras (1923, 1936). La temática principal de este blog es mostrar tales claves históricas analizando los elementos que estaban detrás de las estructuras democráticas: la vida familiar, las asociaciones, las formas de corporativismo, los grupos profesionales, las políticas sectoriales del Estado, y las formas de representación simbólica que legitimaban los poderes constituidos por el liberalismo.