| Summary: | For a long time the prevailing narratives of historiography had usually considered the problems of democracy and national identity in 20th Century-Spain as a linear result of unsuccessful processes, concerning both the Nation and the State, in the early 19th Century. This article aims at proposing an alternative and non-linear analysis, which takes into account the peculiarities of the socioeconomic inheritance of the imperial phase under absolutism and the evolution of the political cultures in Spain, as well as the international background in the age of the elitist liberalism. This way, the article tries to overcome the obsolete theory of the failure of the Spanish liberalism and to avoid poor explanations in terms of a supposed "normality", as well.
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