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Science, Culture and National Identity in Francoist Spain, 1939–1959

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Editors:
  1. Marició Janué i Miret

    1. Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. Albert Presas i Puig

    1. Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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  • Provides in-depth analysis of methods of Franco nationalism and expands research focusing on Southern Europe

  • Covers a wide range of fields, from the natural and social sciences to artistic and cultural spheres such as cinema

  • Explores the link between dictatorship and nationalisation, providing insights for historians of modern Europe

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Theory and Methodology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: The Usefulness of Science and Culture as ‘Nationalization’ Tools in the Early Franco Regime

      • Marició Janué i Miret, Albert Presas i Puig
      Pages 3-27

    3. Science, Nation, and Culture: Changing Meanings

      • Mitchell G. Ash
      Pages 29-57

  4. Women’s Space in the Science and Culture of the Regime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. In the Land of Men: Women in Applied Sciences at the CSIC

      • Fernando García Naharro
      Pages 155-175

    3. A Field Open to Women: Censorship of Children’s and Youth Literature Under Franco Through Women Readers

      • Ramón Tena-Fernández, José Soto-Vázquez
      Pages 177-196

    4. The Contribution of the Female Section to the Hispanic Community of Nations

      • Vanessa Tessada Sepúlveda
      Pages 197-215

  6. Internationalization of Science and Culture in the Franco Regime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301
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    2. French Hispanism and Spanish Cultural Diplomacy during the Franco Regime

      • Antonio Niño
      Pages 303-324
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About this book

This book examines the role that science and culture held as instruments of nationalization policies during the first phase of the Franco regime in Spain. It considers the reciprocal relationship between political legitimacy and developments in science and culture, and explores the ‘nationalization’ efforts in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s, via the complex process of transmitting narratives of national identity, through ideas, representations and homogenizing practices. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the volume features insights into how scientific and cultural language and symbols were used to formulate national identity, through institutions, resource distribution and specific national policies. Split into five parts, the collection considers policies in the Francoist ‘New State’, the role of women in these debates, and perspectives on the nationalization and internationalization efforts that made use of scientific and cultural spheres. Chapters also feature insights into cinema, literature, cultural diplomacy, mathematics and technology in debates on Catalonia, the Nuclear Energy Board, the Spanish National Research Council, and how scientific tools in Spain in this era fed into wider geopolitics with America and onto the UNESCO stage.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Marició Janué i Miret, Albert Presas i Puig

About the editors

Marició Janué i Miret is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. She has published widely on Spanish-German cultural diplomacy in the period 1870-1959 and is currently working on two monographs respectively on the role of culture in Spanish-German relations in the period of National Socialism and on the re-establishment of Spanish-German cultural diplomacy in the post-war period.

Albert Presas i Puig is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He coordinates the Horizon2020 research project ‘History of Nuclear Energy and Society’, and has published extensive research on science during the Franco regime and in the European periphery, as well as on the history of nuclear energy. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Science, Culture and National Identity in Francoist Spain, 1939–1959

  • Editors: Marició Janué i Miret, Albert Presas i Puig

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58646-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58645-4Published: 25 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58648-5Published: 26 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58646-1Published: 24 April 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 429

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Science, History of Modern Europe, Political History, Cultural History

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