{"title":"The Liberal Press as a Mobilizing Agent during the Liberal Revolution in Spain (1808–1843)","authors":"Jordi Roca-Vernet","doi":"10.1177/02656914261434712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261434712","url":null,"abstract":"During the liberal revolution in Spain (180–1843), the press mobilized groups excluded from the exercise of sovereignty. This article offers an analysis of the mobilizing capacity of the press based on two examples. The first is the publication of newspapers in Madrid written in French, whose objective was to influence European parliaments through the community of diplomats and French public opinion in order to counteract the perception that circulated around Europe of a violent and radical Spanish revolution. However, one of the consequences of the diffusion of these newspapers was the reinforcement of transnational liberal discourse. The second example focuses on the competition between two political satirical newspapers featuring cartoons, with different political cultures, to mobilize the collective of weavers, which shows how moderantism involved a wide participatory political system. The cartoons evoked and were directed towards the collective of weavers and were responsible for how a section of them participated in the 1842 uprising against the trade unions that represented them. The press promoted the political agency of individuals belonging to excluded groups or those represented corporatively in the different constitutional frameworks during the most progressive stages of the Spanish liberal revolution (1820–1823 and 1840–1843).","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147751733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Puzzle of Political Participation in Modern Europe: New Perspectives on an Old Phenomenon","authors":"Carlos Domper Lasús, Anne Heyer","doi":"10.1177/02656914261434733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261434733","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mass as a Political Entity? The Emergence of ‘the Masses’ as a Political Actor in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands","authors":"Anne Heyer","doi":"10.1177/02656914261434743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261434743","url":null,"abstract":"By the end of the nineteenth century, ordinary people had become an essential feature of a new legitimizing strategy: instead of the quality of political representatives, it was the quantity of the represented that legitimized power. This contribution takes a conceptual history approach to analyse the slowly changing perception of political participation in the period before elections became the dominant instrument of democratic representation. It studies the changing meaning of the term ‘the masses’ in the nineteenth-century Netherlands. The first part of the article explains the transformation of the way ordinary people and their practices of participation were represented in political discourses in Dutch newspapers. Particular attention will be given to the difference between the domestic and foreign context. The Dutch often discussed the manifestation of protest in foreign politics as a negative development. When occurring in the Netherlands, crowds were treated with more tolerance and were used to demonstrating the legitimacy of the existing political order. The second part focuses on uses of the term ‘mass’ in the non-human world. ‘Mass’ described quantity for neutral objects, but also appeared in the context of movement, unpredictability and harm in the natural world. Thirdly, the paper closely analyses ‘the masses’ in reference to human crowds, which were often depicted as unreliable and violent. The fourth part moves to analysing a so far understudied aspect of ‘the masses’ as an orderly and disciplined entity in the reporting about the Franco-Prussian War. Finally, I focus on ‘the masses’ as a reliable political actor in the Netherlands. The conclusion shows that the image of ‘the masses’ was not only negative, but also contained a positive dimension.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147586691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘We are Going far Away, but Without Separating’: The International Union of Catholic Women's Leagues (1910–1939)","authors":"Alejandro Camino Rodríguez","doi":"10.1177/02656914261434162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914261434162","url":null,"abstract":"The International Union of Catholic Women's Leagues, initially known as the International Council of Catholic Women's Leagues, was the main international Catholic women's organization and one of the most important international women's associations. This article studies the first three decades of the organization, paying particular attention to the international conferences and the association's main guidelines regarding women's rights and the defence of Catholicism and morality. Furthermore, the intention is to situate the international organization within the context of Catholic internationalism, on the one hand, and feminist internationalism, on the other, establishing the similarities and particularities of this organization in relation to both fields. Finally, the text also addresses the involvement of this international organization in the League of Nations, highlighting the fields in which it strove to cooperate with the League and identifying its proposals.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"149 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147586578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine by Jonathan Haslam Jonathan Haslam, Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine , The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2025; 350 pp., 3 maps, 9780674299078, $29.95","authors":"Anton Fedyashin","doi":"10.1177/02656914251408248f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251408248f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"276 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146006064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Concentration Camps: A Global History by Alan Kramer Alan Kramer, Concentration Camps: A Global History , Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2025; 640 pp.; 9780198800620; £40.00 (hbk)","authors":"Meghan Riley","doi":"10.1177/02656914251408248h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251408248h","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146006067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Visual Culture of East German Picturebooks, 1945–1990: Architecture, Traffic, and Design of Childhood by Jörg Meibauer Jörg Meibauer, The Visual Culture of East German Picturebooks, 1945–1990: Architecture, Traffic, and Design of Childhood , De Gruyter: Berlin, 2025; 248 pp., 77 colour illus, 3 b/w illus, 1 table; 9783111636665, £91.00 (hbk)","authors":"Sean Eedy","doi":"10.1177/02656914251408248j","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251408248j","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146006068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years’ War by Trevor Burnard, Emma Hart and Marie Houllemare, eds Trevor Burnard, Emma Hart and Marie Houllemare, eds, The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years’ War , Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2024; 784 pp.; 9780197622605, £132.50 (hbk)","authors":"Alexander S. Burns","doi":"10.1177/02656914251408248d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251408248d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146006059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Comintern in Spain Before the Civil War: Red Tide Rising by Gustavo Martín Asensio Gustavo Martín Asensio, The Comintern in Spain Before the Civil War: Red Tide Rising , Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2024; 256 pp.; 9781350443358, £85.00 (hbk); 9781350443365, £28.99 (pbk); 9781350443372, £76.50 (ebook)","authors":"Arturo Zoffman Rodriguez","doi":"10.1177/02656914251408248i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251408248i","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146006065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}