José Álvarez Junco

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José Álvarez Junco
Born8 November 1942 Edit this on Wikidata
Vielha Edit this on Wikidata
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OccupationUniversity teacher Edit this on Wikidata
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Awards
  • National Award of Essay (2002) Edit this on Wikidata

José Álvarez Junco (born 1942) is a Spanish historian, emeritus professor of the History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the

anarchist movement
.

Biography

Born on 8 November 1942 in

Vielha,[1] in the Catalan Pyrenees, he moved young with his family to Villalpando (province of Zamora), where he was raised and spent his youth.[2] He took his highschool studies at the Instituto Claudio Moyano [es],[3] in the provincial capital, Zamora
.

He studied law (1959–1964) and political science (1962–1965) at the University of Madrid.[2] A pupil of Luis Díez del Corral and José Antonio Maravall during his university years,[4][2] he earned a PhD at the UCM reading a thesis on the Spanish anarchist movement supervised by Maravall.[n. 1]

From 1992 to 2000, he held the Prince of Asturias endowed chair at Tufts University.[6] He was also the Chair of the Iberian Study Group at the Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).[3]

From 2004 to 2008 he was Director of the

Council of State.[7]

Chair of History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the UCM, he retired in 2014.[8]

Works

Author
  • — (1971). La Comuna en España. Siglo XXI.[9]
  • — (1976). La ideología política del anarquismo español, 1868-1910.[10][11]
  • — (1981). Los movimientos obreros en el Madrid del siglo XIX. Madrid:
    Ayuntamiento de Madrid
    .
  • — (1983). Periodismo y política en el Madrid de fin de siglo: el primer lerrouxismo. Madrid:
    Ayuntamiento de Madrid
    .
  • — (1990). El "Emperador del Paralelo". Alejandro Lerroux y la demagogia populista. Alianza Editorial.[12]
  • — (2001). Mater Dolorosa. La idea de España en el siglo XIX. Taurus Ediciones.[n. 2]
  • — (2016). Dioses útiles. Naciones y nacionalismos. Madrid: Galaxia Gutenberg.[13]
  • — (2019). A las barricadas. Cultura, identidad y movilización política. Madrid: Ediciones Complutense.

References

Informational Notes
  1. ^ He has commented it was intended that he would read the dissertation on 21 December 1973, but as Carrero was killed on that day, he asked for a delay, as it would not be a good day to read a thesis about anarchism.[5]
  2. Fastenrath Prize [es
    ]
    .
Citations
Bibliography


Academic offices
Preceded by Director of the
Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies

2004–2008
Succeeded by