El Provencio, más pan y menos misa

En junio de 1856 se promulgó la Ley sobre desamortización de bienes de las corporaciones civiles y eclesiásticas, que marcó por primera vez en el ámbito nacional la política agraria liberal por excelencia: el proceso de desamortización que afectó a pueblos comuneros y ayuntamientos, entre otros actores. Su principal objetivo consistió en acabar con los antiguos derechos colectivos sobre tierras, aguas y bosques con el fin de consolidar la propiedad privada, lo que se consideraba imprescindible para el desarrollo del campo, la modernización fiscal y el control administrativo de la...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

La historiografía tradicional, española y europea, ha considerado la Guerra de Granada (1482-1492) como un hecho de naturaleza y alcance exclusivamente hispánicos. Se trataba del último episodio de un proceso ibérico, la « Reconquista », el enfrentamiento secular entre el Islam y la Cristiandad, consustancial al Medievo peninsular. El nacionalismo romántico del siglo XIX y la dictadura de Franco (1939-1975) lo marcaron a fuego en la identidad nacional española. Sin embargo, en las últimas décadas se han revisado estos postulados, hasta culminar en una revisión radical. Librado el...