Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- About the Contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Possible monarchies: the political and cultural modernisation of Spanish liberalism -- PART I: An institution's political dynamics -- 1. The mutations of the Spanish monarchy (1750-1868) -- 2. Spanish modernity and the (gendered) monarchy: From biography to history and back to biography -- 3. Amadeo I: The republican king? -- 4. The consolidation of the constitutional monarchical system (1874-1902)
5. The two monarchies of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931 -- PART II: Ritual, staging, and nationalisation -- 6. The ritual problem in the Spanish post-revolutionary monarchical fiction (1833-1868) -- 7. The royal family as a symbolic fiction: A mixed picture of the new forms of legitimacy in Spain's liberal monarchy (1843-1931) -- 8. The king on a coin: Monarchy, state, and nation through nineteenth-century Spanish coins and stamps -- 9. The pious Crown: The monarchy's religious devotions during the reign of Isabel II
10. The king's descent into the people's assembly: Monarchy and liberalism in Spain's nineteenth-century State Opening of Parliament ceremony -- 11. Royal travels: The modern staging and legitimation of the Spanish monarchy, 1858-1931 -- Index
