Antonio Trueba behind the Revolution of 1868 and the Abolition of the Foral Law: On the Road from the Literature of Double Patriotism to Basque Nationality

Authors

  • Javier Pérez Núñez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i22.685

Keywords:

Democratic Revolution of 1868, Basque Fueros, Carlism, Conservatism, Folk literature

Abstract

This article carries out a historical study of the folk literature written by Vizcaya archivist and chronicler Antonio Trueba during the democratic six-year period of 1868 and the first years of the Restoration, in which the abolition of the Basque regional regimes took place. Observing the first experience from a fairly extreme conservatism and catholicism, he stood at the edge with the carlism in arms, which he failed to profess for his rejection of violence and fidelity to the Elizabethan Monarchy and, therefore, to that of the Restoration. Considering the abolition of the foral law from a very idealistic fuerismo caused him to break with them and a departure from double patriotism through a process of negative Spanish nationalization and affirmation of the idea of the Basque nationality.

Fecha de envío / Submission date: 14/08/2020

Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance date: 19/10/2020

Author Biography

Javier Pérez Núñez

Profesor titular del Departamento de Historia Contemporánea de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autonóma de Madrid

Published

2021-09-04