This dissertation contributes to the long-standing debate between those who argue that the enclosure of the commons was as a precondition to foster economic growth and those who defend common property regimes can be efficient and sustainable. Exploiting historical evidence from 19^th century and early 20^th century Spain, this research shows that the persistence of the commons in some Spanish regions was not detrimental to economic development, at least relative to the institutional arrangements they were replaced with. On the contrary, during the early stages of modern economic growth, the communal regime not only did not limit agricultural productivity growth, but indeed constituted a crucial part of the functioning of the rural economics in a number of ways. On the one hand, these collective resources complemented rural incomes and, subsequently, sustained households' consumption capacity. The reduction in life expectancy and heights in the provinces where privatisation was more intense, as well as the negative effect on literacy levels, strongly supports that the privatisation of the commons deteriorated the living standards of a relatively large part of the population. On the other hand, the communal regime also significantly contributed to financing the municipal budget. Deprived from this important source of revenue, local councils became unable to adequately fund local public goods and ended up increasing local taxes. Lastly, the social networks developed around the use and management of these collective resources facilitated the diffusion of information and the building of mutual knowledge and trust, thus constituting a vital ingredient of the social glue that hold these rural communities together. All things considered, the persistence of the commons in some regions provided peasants with cooperation mechanisms different from the market and made the transition to modern economic growth more socially sustainable.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Arts Faculty (Fine Arts), 1999 / My basic premise in this study is, if abjection is a psychosocial phenomenon, even a kind of waste category and mechanism, it should be discernible and analysable as an underlying structure in the form, iconography and purpose of works of art. Certain modes of art will manifest or express it more lucidly and abundantly than others. Satire and the Grotesque, which Goya adopts in his graphic Work, are especially fruitful in this regard. In both, one can find processes and states of degradation and vitiation that accord with the two facets of abjection Hal Foster (1996) so pragmatically terms the operation to abject and the condition to be abject. Satire, with its inclination to criticise political, social and ecclesiastical figures, can chiefly be interpreted in terms of the operation to abject (to lower, cast down, depose, sideline), while the Grotesque, displaying the distorted, monstrous, 'freakish', hybrid, impossible, relates more to tire condition to be abject. This conjunction between satire/the Grotesque and abjection guides my interpretation of Los Caprichos and Los Disparates. Los Caprichos, in which Goya took it upon himself to "censure" and "ridicule" "human errors and vices", are marked by a quite strict use of satire to criticise, mock and marginalise certain social groups (prostitutes, nobles and corrupt clerics, in particular). Since society, or the Symbolic that undergirds it, cannot do without the abject, either in its role as midden or as oppositional determinant or defining other, the satirical project cannot banish or destroy the abject; it can, however, bid and lobby for some degree of social reclamation and rejuvenation. The satirist depicts the grotesque, sordid, obscene, deviant, abandoned and licentious to indicate to the viewer/reader what s/h e must laugh off to live a decent, obedient, constructive and law-fearing life. Goya takes this aapproach in Los Caprichos. After all, in at least one letter to his friend Martin Zapater he hinted that he feared the "witches, goblins, phantoms, arrogant giants, knaves" and "scoundrels" of his society, and evidently felt a need to part from them. How deep this need ran one cannot say; many of his images suggest a degree of equivocation (he vacillates between being on the side of the law and on the side of Ms own more incorruptible conscience, from which he upbraids the law) and ambivalence (on the one hand, he scolds his objects of attack and appears to be repelled by them; on the other, he seems to relish depicting them in grotesque and blighted shapes, as if the satirical purpose is secondary to the opportunity his art provides to invent forms and get close to the forbidden, the anti-social, the rotten, the abject). In Los Disparates equivocation and ambivalence come more to the fore. Goya often appears most aggressively satirical in the Disparates when he questions corruption in social institutions such as tire Church and the law. Some images, notably Folhj of the Mass, juxtapose a wrathful figure with a mass of social ills, foibles and depravities, and seem characteristically satirical, but the majority of the etchings are striking in their lack of closure, as if a "state of unresolved tension", to quote Michael Steig, adequately rewarded Goya for the labour of production. Man xoandering among Phantoms, for example, is ambiguous and seems to sum up Goya's relationsMp to the abject toward the end of his life: through the surrogate of an old man, Goya appears to have struck a deal with the abject; submerged in it, corrupted by it, impure, but nevertheless sufficiently single-minded to find an identity separate from it. Complicit, but differentiated: all subjects stand in this way to the abject. In Los Desastres, especially given that I do not deal with the Caprichos Enfdticos section of the series, my interpretation is determined less by satire than by the question of how an antagonistic nation uses war as a mechanism of conclusive abjection to extend military, political and, ultimately. Symbolic influence - by means of sanctioned murder, execution, even rape - over another nation, w ith the aim of making that nation succumb to the abjection of surrender and the imposition of a foreign Symbolic. War also produces heaps of corpses and, in the occupied cities, ill and starving destitutes: those reduced to conditions of permanent or near-permanent abjection by war's ballistic exacerbation of the operation to abject. Contact with abjection through art strengthens, weakens and expands the self. It carries the threat of immersion in the repressed and the promise of risque pleasure - both from the diminution of unpleasure through the making or viewing of art, and the more positive pleasure of jouissance. Contact with abjection allows, further, for the complicated experience of being liminal, grotesque and abject oneself while caught between the poles of the Symbolic and tire abject. Whether we, as makers an d /o r viewers, criticise or joy in it, abjection holds out the alluring prospect of catharsis and temporary relief both from its own hazards and the rigours and inhibitions of social life. Goya, it would appear, found this intervenient condition compelling enough to return to it - if he ever truly left it - over a period of almost three decades through the medium of the three graphic series I explore in this dissertation.

En 1876 se funda la Institución Libre de Enseñanza (ILE), un centro privado de instrucción que introduce iniciativas pioneras en el campo educativo de España. Si bien hay una disponibilidad buena de literatura especializada sobre el instituto, la descripción de sus planteamientos pedagógicos suele ser pasada por alto. A través de un análisis textual cualitativo del pensamiento educativo de Francisco Giner de los Ríos – el fundador principal y el líder ideológico del instituto – el estudio actual se propone contribuir a una mayor comprensión de las reformas pedagógicas de la ILE. Mediante el análisis de dichas reformas y su enlace con el entorno de España a fines del siglo XIX, la investigación muestra los aspectos activos, creativos e integrales de la enseñanza institucionista y cómo el instituto pretendía realizar una modernización del país a través de la educación.

Ce mémoire vise à élargir, à l'aune d'une approche herméneutique jaussienne, l’interprétation de deux tableaux de Goya portant des titres qui leur ont été donnés a posteriori : "Cannibales montrant des restes humains" (1800-1808?) et "Cannibales préparant leurs victimes" (1800-1808?). Notre analyse se fonde en premier lieu sur une description de la matérialité des œuvres ; nous fournissons la première lecture de la relation entre ces tableaux et en défendons par ailleurs le statut de diptyque. Nous proposons ensuite une analyse critique de la réception des deux tableaux. Puis, dans la mesure où ces œuvres sont les premiers exemples où apparaissent en peinture des « sauvages » cannibales, nous explorons l'horizon iconographique du cannibalisme afin d'y chercher des images comparables. Cette tradition figurative paraît se réduire à trois catégories, à savoir: l’image coloniale, la caricature et la peinture mythologique. Ensuite, en partant de l'hypothèse répandue et héritée du romantisme que ces œuvres constituent des représentations de la nature humaine, nous tentons de les réinscrire dans l'horizon historique et philosophique dont est issue cette notion. Nous nous penchons tout spécifiquement sur les pensées philosophiques de Thomas Hobbes et de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, qui articulent des conceptions contraires de la nature humaine : si pour l’un, celle-ci est cruelle, pour l’autre elle est fondamentalement bonne. Ainsi, pourrons-nous mieux situer ces deux tableaux par rapport à cette notion à l’aune de son contexte d’émergence spécifique, notion que Goya a certainement découvert à travers les Ilustrados qui incarnent la philosophie des Lumières en Espagne. Nous désirons démontrer de quelle manière ces œuvres pensent et comment, par l'entremise de leurs propres moyens, elles en viennent à se distancier, en les dépassant, les horizons iconographique et philosophique dont elles participent. / The present research project aims to broaden the interpretations of two paintings of Francisco de Goya, whose titles were attributed to them a posteriori: "Cannibals Gazing at their Victims" (1800-1008?) and "Cannibals Preparing their Victims" (1800-1008?). The analysis begins with a description of the materiality of the paintings. This section represents the first reading of the works’ structural connections, and suggests that the two images are in fact two parts of a diptych. We will then delve into a critical exploration of their reception. Since these images are the two first examples of cannibal figures inspired by colonial imagery to appear in the Western art historical tradition of painting, we explore the iconographical horizon of cannibalism in order to find comparable images, the likes of which are divided into three categories: colonial images, caricature, and mythological paintings. Afterwards, considering the widespread and romantic interpretation of these paintings as representations of human nature, we will attempt to reinscribe them within the historical and philosophical spheres from which this notion derives. We focus on the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose conceptions of human nature are contradictory towards each other. While Hobbes suggests that the nature of humanity is cruel, Rousseau deems it fundamentally good. This notion is one that Goya probably encountered himself while frequenting the Ilustrados – or, the more prominent figures of the Spanish Enlightenment. As a result, we will be able to situate the two paintings with respect to their specific context of emergence. Through the examination of these horizons, we aim to demonstrate the ways in which these two paintings think, and how, through their own resources, they deviate from – or even surpass – the iconographical and philosophical situations from which they hail, and to which they respond.

Notre analyse de l’imposante toile de Francisco Goya L’Assemblée de la Compagnie Royale des Philippines dite La Junte des Philippines (1815) vise à sortir cette œuvre de l’isolement où les études antérieures l’ont en grande partie maintenue. Nous désirons réinsérer ce tableau au cœur des dynamiques artistiques et économiques mondiales à l’orée du XIXe siècle. Le regard lucide que nous portons sur le tableau de Goya s’appuie sur une approche historique issue de la pensée postcoloniale actuelle. Par un renversement de perspective depuis la salle de réunion vers l’empire espagnol, nous plaçons l’œuvre dans une trame de relations mondiales entre la métropole et ses colonies. La Junte des Philippines révèle alors un point de vue particulier sur l’impérialisme espagnol en déclin. Loin d’être close sur elle-même, l’œuvre articule une série de thématiques qui répondent aux exigences artistiques de l’époque, notamment de la bourgeoisie libérale. Le traitement qu’opère La Junte de la commémoration d’une rencontre d’actionnaires met au jour une conception visuelle du capitalisme mercantile et financier présent en Espagne et en Angleterre. L’intrigue artistique que déploie Goya possède une signification d’envergure historique qui contribue à la valeur d’actualité de La Junte des Philippines. / This thesis is a study of Francisco Goya’s imposing painting The Assembly of the Royal Company of the Philippines, more commonly known as The Junta of the Philippines (1815). It seeks to remove the work from the isolation in which previous studies have largely kept it confined and to situate it at the core of the global artistic and economic nexus that marked the early nineteenth century. My account is informed by a historical approach that is anchored in current postcolonial theory. By inverting the painting’s perspective, to open it from the assembly room onto the Spanish Empire, I place the work at the centre of a rich web of global relationships that link the metropole and its colonies. Seen in this light, the Junta of the Philippines evinces a particular point of view of the Spanish Empire in decline. Far from being closed in on itself, the work articulates a series of themes that respond to the artistic demands of the time, namely those of the liberal bourgeoisie. Goya’s depiction of a meeting of stockholders expounds a particular visual conception of British and Spanish merchant and financial capitalism. The artistic intrigue that Goya weaves in The Junta of the Philippines reverberates on a broad historical scale that confirms the painting’s present-day relevance. / Nuestro estudio sobre la imponente pintura de Francisco Goya La Asamblea de la Compañía Real de Filipinas llamada La Junta de Filipinas (1815) pretende sacar esta obra del aislamiento donde los estudios anteriores lo mantuvieron en gran parte. Deseamos reinsertar este cuadro al corazón de las dinámicas mundiales artísticas y económicas al lindero del siglo XIX. La mirada lúcida que damos al cuadro de Goya se apoya en un enfoque histórico nacido del pensamiento poscolonial actual. Por una caída de perspectiva desde la sala de reuniones hacia el imperio español, colocamos la obra en una trama de relaciones mundiales entre la metrópoli y sus colonias. La Junta de Filipinas revela entonces un punto de vista particular sobre el imperialismo español en decadencia. Lejos de ser cerrada, la obra misma articula una serie de temáticas que responden a las exigencias artísticas de la época, particularmente de la burguesía liberal. El tratamiento que opera La Junta de la conmemoración de un encuentro de accionistas da a luz una concepción visual del capitalismo mercante y financiero presente en España y en Inglaterra. La intriga artística que despliega Goya posee un significado de envergadura histórica que contribuye al valor de actualidad de La Junta de Filipinas.

Notre analyse de l’imposante toile de Francisco Goya L’Assemblée de la Compagnie Royale des Philippines dite La Junte des Philippines (1815) vise à sortir cette œuvre de l’isolement où les études antérieures l’ont en grande partie maintenue. Nous désirons réinsérer ce tableau au cœur des dynamiques artistiques et économiques mondiales à l’orée du XIXe siècle. Le regard lucide que nous portons sur le tableau de Goya s’appuie sur une approche historique issue de la pensée postcoloniale actuelle. Par un renversement de perspective depuis la salle de réunion vers l’empire espagnol, nous plaçons l’œuvre dans une trame de relations mondiales entre la métropole et ses colonies. La Junte des Philippines révèle alors un point de vue particulier sur l’impérialisme espagnol en déclin. Loin d’être close sur elle-même, l’œuvre articule une série de thématiques qui répondent aux exigences artistiques de l’époque, notamment de la bourgeoisie libérale. Le traitement qu’opère La Junte de la commémoration d’une rencontre d’actionnaires met au jour une conception visuelle du capitalisme mercantile et financier présent en Espagne et en Angleterre. L’intrigue artistique que déploie Goya possède une signification d’envergure historique qui contribue à la valeur d’actualité de La Junte des Philippines. / This thesis is a study of Francisco Goya’s imposing painting The Assembly of the Royal Company of the Philippines, more commonly known as The Junta of the Philippines (1815). It seeks to remove the work from the isolation in which previous studies have largely kept it confined and to situate it at the core of the global artistic and economic nexus that marked the early nineteenth century. My account is informed by a historical approach that is anchored in current postcolonial theory. By inverting the painting’s perspective, to open it from the assembly room onto the Spanish Empire, I place the work at the centre of a rich web of global relationships that link the metropole and its colonies. Seen in this light, the Junta of the Philippines evinces a particular point of view of the Spanish Empire in decline. Far from being closed in on itself, the work articulates a series of themes that respond to the artistic demands of the time, namely those of the liberal bourgeoisie. Goya’s depiction of a meeting of stockholders expounds a particular visual conception of British and Spanish merchant and financial capitalism. The artistic intrigue that Goya weaves in The Junta of the Philippines reverberates on a broad historical scale that confirms the painting’s present-day relevance. / Nuestro estudio sobre la imponente pintura de Francisco Goya La Asamblea de la Compañía Real de Filipinas llamada La Junta de Filipinas (1815) pretende sacar esta obra del aislamiento donde los estudios anteriores lo mantuvieron en gran parte. Deseamos reinsertar este cuadro al corazón de las dinámicas mundiales artísticas y económicas al lindero del siglo XIX. La mirada lúcida que damos al cuadro de Goya se apoya en un enfoque histórico nacido del pensamiento poscolonial actual. Por una caída de perspectiva desde la sala de reuniones hacia el imperio español, colocamos la obra en una trama de relaciones mundiales entre la metrópoli y sus colonias. La Junta de Filipinas revela entonces un punto de vista particular sobre el imperialismo español en decadencia. Lejos de ser cerrada, la obra misma articula una serie de temáticas que responden a las exigencias artísticas de la época, particularmente de la burguesía liberal. El tratamiento que opera La Junta de la conmemoración de un encuentro de accionistas da a luz una concepción visual del capitalismo mercante y financiero presente en España y en Inglaterra. La intriga artística que despliega Goya posee un significado de envergadura histórica que contribuye al valor de actualidad de La Junta de Filipinas.