ABSTRACT
The rural and peripheral province of Córdoba in southern Spain was the scene of a cycle of intense and continuous sociopolitical mobilisation between 1890 and 1930. This collective action contributed to the wave of democratisation that ended with the Second Spanish Republic. This process was based on traditional and new forms of conflict and negotiation between modernising rural political elites and the people ‘upgraded’ to the status of political and social actors. On the other hand, this process was made possible by the ‘virtuous link’ between liberalism, democracy and republicanism. The goal of this chapter is to explain the processes recorded during those four decades in a scenario often neglected by the general historiography and to show their causal relationship with the political revolution that succeeded on 14 April 1931 (Second Republic).
