The Mistrust of the American Model of Modernization in Spain

Authors

  • Daniel Fernández de Miguel Universidad Complutense de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/hp.34.04

Keywords:

Modernization, americanization, consumer society, Market Empire, intellectuals, technocrats, anti-Americanism

Abstract

Throughout the first third of the twentieth century, the ongoing debates on modernization in Spain took Europe as their main reference point, but there were also partisans and detractors of American-style modernization, which clearly was in the ascendant. Following the Francoist victory in the Civil War, which coincided with the United States’ rise to the condition of world superpower, American-style modernization further troubled important sectors of Spanish society, at times with the clear connivance of Francoist officials. The gradual improvement of bilateral relations, confirmed by the signing of the Treaty of Madrid of 1953, lead new reformist elites in the second half of the Fifties to look toward the other side of the Atlantic in search of economic and ideological references to modernization, thus breaking with the anti-American tradition that up to that time was dominant in Spanish conservatism. 

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Author Biography

Daniel Fernández de Miguel , Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Me licencié en Ciencias Políticas por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en el año 2001. Antes de terminar mi licenciatura, publiqué mi primer artículo, en la revista cultural Caminar Conociendo, sobre la politización del vanguardismo a finales de los años veinte del siglo pasado, tomando como referencia la evolución de Cesar Muñoz Arconada y Ramiro Ledesma Ramos. En el año 2008 me doctoré con mención europea en Ciencias Políticas por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, tras ser becado por la Fundación Ramón Areces para la realización de una tesis doctoral sobre el antiamericanismo conservador español. En el curso de mi investigación, realicé una estancia, becado por el Education Abroad Program, de un curso académico en la Universidad de California, San Diego, participando en diversos seminarios e investigando bajo la dirección del profesor David Ringrose. Y realicé otra estancia, también durante un curso académico, en la École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de París, donde también combiné la participación en seminarios con la investigación, en este caso bajo la dirección del profesor Jordi Canal. He publicado diversos artículos y colaboraciones sobre la imagen norteamericana en España, y también un libro, en la editorial académica Genueve Ediciones, titulado “El enemigo yanqui. Las raíces conservadoras del antiamericanismo español”, publicado en el 2012. En este momento soy colaborador honorífico del Departamento de Historia del Pensamiento y de los Movimientos Sociales y Políticos de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

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Published

2016-02-18

Issue

No. 34 (2015): July-December

Section

MONOGRAPHS

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