La propaganda republicana: la Monarquía contra el pueblo. El caso de Isabel II (1854-1931)

Resumo

The republicans used the image of Isabel II to recreate the myth of the throne against the people. Her life and her reign provided them with sufficient examples of such opposition to sustain the argument. The propagation of this image enabled them to conclude that monarchy was a form of government contrary to the interests, values and sentiments of Spaniards, whilst a republic was held up as synonymous with progress, morality and the government of the people. The myth of the throne against the people thus reinforced the radical liberal or republican mythologemy placing the Golden Age in the middle ages, the times of the municipal fueros (charters of rights) and the Communards; linking decadence with the monarchy and the Bourbons; and made the republic a precondition of redemption. The image of Isabel II that the republicans created was useful in illustrating such ideas.