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DOCTORAL THESES

Author: Alain J. Santos Fuentes
Date of publication: 2025
Editorial: European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation
Collection: Tesis doctorales
Number: 7
ISBN: 978-84-128495-4-7
Price: 20 euros

In recent years, a historiographical reform movement has taken shape regarding the crisis of the Spanish Monarchy in the first decades of the 19^th century and the long process of de-imperialisation that followed it, driven by the official commemoration of several major bicentenaries between 1808 and 1824. The successive commemorations of the Spanish War of Independence against Napoleon and the Hispanic American wars of independence, as well as the Constitution of Cádiz, the Liberal Triennium, and the Battle of Ayacucho, among others, have prompted a vast editorial effort across the entire Ibero-American sphere.

This research focuses on Cuban political life during the periods in which the constitutional regime was in force, understanding politics in a broad sense as the set of practices and means that shaped access to the public sphere and the struggle for power among different actors, with particular attention to sectors beyond the oligarchy and covering, as far as possible, the entire territory rather than Havana alone. This is especially significant in the Cuban case, where capital politics has often been conflated with that of the country as a whole.

Alain J. Santos Fuentes holds a PhD in History from the University of the Basque Country.

Winning thesis of the 8^th Research Prize to Ibero-American Doctoral Theses.