Spain History

THE GREAT WAR AND THE CRISIS OF LIBERALISM IN SPAIN, 1916-1917
ROMERO SALVADO LondonMetropolitanUniversity
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The Liberal administration of Count Romanones (December 1915-April 1917) can be seen as the period in which the Restoration Monarchy entered a crisis
of authority from which it never recovered.1 Certainly the regimes legitimacy had come under increasing contend following the traumatic colonial disaster of
1898.



Internal factionalism was an total part of dynastic politics. Labour pro- test, peripheral nationalism, and praetorian interpellation in politics had all existed before. Yet now they all acquired an unprecedented level of intensity and organ- ization, and presented simultaneously a direct challenge to the hegemony of the ruling political order.
During the seventeen months of government, the Liberals were torn apart by
internal dissent and petty squabbles. They never unified again. In fact, by early 1918, the old Liberal party had attached way to five different factional groups.
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