Historia patria
Subtitle: politics, history, and national identity in Spain, 1875-1975
By: Carolyn P. Boyd.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Nationalism and education -- Spain -- History.; Education and state -- Spain -- History.; Politics and education -- Spain -- History.; Nationalism -- Study and teaching -- Spain.; Spain -- History -- Study and teaching -- Spain.
Description: Beginning with the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1875 and ending with the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, this book explores the intersection of education and nationalism in Spain.

Based on a broad range of archival and published sources, including parliamentary and ministerial records, pedagogical treatises and journals, teachers' manuals, memoirs, and a sample of over 200 primary and secondary school textbooks, the study examines ideological and political conflict among groups of elites seeking to shape popular understanding of national history and identity through the schools, both public and private.

Scholars with interests in modern European cultural politics, processes of state consolidation, nationalism, and the history of education will find this book essential reading.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-348) and index.