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A fidalguía galega ante a crise do Antigo Réxime (1812–1868)

By Antonio Presedo Garazo

About this book

This books gives us some keys to understand how the Galician nobility adapted to a new historical moment during the first half of the 19th century. The complexity of this movement cannot be understood without considering their relation to the preservation of old noble manors. Therefore this book presents six chapters to study the specificities of Galician nobility during the crisis of the Old Regime and the economic and social reproduction strategies used by this group to adapt to the new times fostered by liberal reforms in the first half of the 19th century.

Book fragment

When poet Eduardo Pondal, still young, decided to finish with the following verses his Toast for the celebration of the Democratic Feast of Conxo, ten years after the executions of Carral in 1846 after the revolution led by Solís (B. Cores Trasmonte, 1976: 17 ss.; e X. R. Barreiro Fernández, 1977), and which were read for the first time that day on 2nd March 1856 –along with a poem by young writer Aurelio Aguirre-, it was clear that he wanted to go beyond their mere political content —still influenced by Provincialism (X. R. Barreiro Fernández, 1977: 83 ss.)— of this political–philantropical event. In fact, the content of these verses shows the strong intense emotion with which this author was part of a social critique already mentioned by other Galician scholars already some years back, a critique to the nobles of the Galician kingdom, which was responsible in the eyes of some Liberal theoreticians of the first half of the 19th century, to a large extent, of the concerning status of the Galician economy, very much linked and dependent on agriculture. (J. Carmona Badía, 1990: 37 ss.)...