Exaltados
Sign in to saveThe Exaltados ('Fanatics' or 'Extremists', in the sense of 'radicals') was the label given to the most left-wing or progressive political current of liberalism in nineteenth-century Spain. Associated with, and at times inspired by, French Jacobinism and republicanism, it corresponded to the political current known more generally as Radicalism.
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- The War of Independence and the Constitution of 1812
- The Three Liberal Years (1820-23) and the ''Veinteañistas''
- The Isabelline Monarchy and the Progressive Party
- The Glorious Revolution (1868) and the First Republic (1870-72)
- Radical Republicanism and the Second Republic (1931-39)
- References
The Exaltados ('Fanatics' or 'Extremists', in the sense of 'radicals') was the label given to the most left-wing or progressive political current of liberalism in nineteenth-century Spain. Associated with, and at times inspired by, French Jacobinism and republicanism, it corresponded to the political current known more generally as Radicalism.
== The War of Independence and the Constitution of 1812 == The Exaltados emerged following the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814) against the French Empire. The old absolute monarchy of the Bourbons had been replaced with a Napoleonic monarchy which, inspired by the Enlightenment, was autocratic in nature but moderately progressive in content.
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