Societat i poder en el canvi de l'Antic Règim a la societat liberal : línies generals de l'estudi del cas de Sabadell (1718-1823)

Abstract

The dissertation that we present studies the liberal revolution in Sabadell in its first stages (1812-1814 and 1820-1823). It shows the political and social repercussions of the first intents of installation of the constitutional régime in the municipal environment, linked to the Constitution of Cádiz 1812, and it deepens in the social and cultural environments in a wide sense of the notion of culture in that the new leaders were formed. In the study, that ends up in 1823, although it includes an epilogue referred to the later years, the relationship is verified among the first constitutional city councils of Sabadell and the most active groups in the protest and the social mobilization of the last times of the old régime (protest for the subsistences, in favor of measures of communitary economic redistribution, improves of the levels of live and well-being and against the wrong government, etc.) some lines to define the generating process of new political models have been traced (not only of the one that was implanted finally) and of new social behaviour, starting from a better knowledge of the cultura and political conceptions of the absolutist stage and of regulated economy of the last years of the old régime, in which the projects of change were originated.