Democracy at Stake: Pinos Genil from the Restoration to Civil War

Abstract

The difficult achievement of democracy in Spain during the inter-war period serves as the backbone of this analysis of the village of Pinos Genil in Granada and its political and social transformation. From the chieftainship of the Restoration came the militarism of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and from there a new democratising stage, characterised by reforms and instability –violent altercations and even attacks– which was soon interrupted by the uprising of part of the army, the war and the Franco dictatorship.   In order to carry out the historical analysis, a multi-scale methodology has been used, ranging from the local to the general, with the final idea of understanding the main political transformations in this rural Andalusian town during the first third of the twentieth century.