Una historia atlántica de los orígenes de la nación y el Estado

José M. Portillo, from the idea of emancipation brought by Western modernity, builds a history of the origins of the nation and the State in Spain. To do this, it studies the process of Ibero-American emancipation to reach the conclusion that Spain is one more consequence of the long imperial crisis of the Spanish monarchy of the 18th and 19th centuries, in the same way that Mexico, Peru or other national spaces are. From the american continent. Without denying the existence of a previous coexistence of centuries of the peoples that make up Spain prior to this period. Emancipation is seen as the process by which the peoples cease to be the heritage of a family or person to achieve their freedom and independence. As reflected in the Cádiz Constitution, which establishes that the nation is "free and independent", not forming part of the heritage of "any family or person", grounds on which it proclaimed its sovereignty. Although, in the Spanish case, emancipation was not a simple transition between king and nation, as if sovereignty had flown from one to the other. It was complex and contradictory due to internal tensions that have reached our days. Tensions that have been tried to overcome in different constitutions and statutes, coining new concepts such as "nation of nations", "Spain and the Spains"... A fully current book that comes to clarify the conflicts and discussions around the conception of the nation and the State in Spain, looking for its roots in the 18th and 19th centuries.