Facultad de Humanidades y CC de la Comunicación

Desde Homero hasta nuestros días, la guerra ha sido un tema recurrente del que el ser humano ha dejado constancia a través de diversos medios, ya sean escritos, escultóricos, pictóricos y otros muchos. Este libro reúne una serie de artículos que se caracterizan por la riqueza y variedad de los temas abordados en su afán de analizar los conflictos bélicos desde la perspectiva más amplia posible: de la antigüedad clásica hasta el presente. Se profundiza así en la complejidad y diversidad de la narrativa bélica en diferentes épocas y contextos, a través de un enfoque interdisciplinar y una rigurosa metodología de investigación. Estas características hacen de la obra un importante punto de referencia para entender, desde una visión panorámica y reflexiva, cómo se ha representado la guerra a lo largo de la historia y ponderar qué repercusiones –sin duda muy considerables– han podido tener las distintas interpretaciones.

Karl Marx’s writings about Spain have been published and studied on several occasions. Among the sources listed by Pedro Ribas, William Walton and his work The Revolutions of Spain, from 1808 to the End of 1836 figures among those mentioned most. Rather surprising, given that Walton sympathised with both Spanish Carlism and Portuguese Miguelism. Though he was born and died in England, Walton lived in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, in America and in the French colony of Santo Domingo at various stages in the course of his career. A Catholic in an Anglican country, he translated Puigblanch’s The Inquisition Unmasked. Neither did his political ideas remain unchanged throughout his life. This paper looks at the influence thatWalton had on Marx’s ideas about Spain, particularly as regards the Carlist political movement. Marx read Walton in the British Library and took detailed notes from his book. He used these notes in his articles regarding the events that occurred in the country. We will also reflect on the place that Walton begins to occupy in Peninsular historiography, through the bibliographical information on his changing political viewpoints and his proximity to contemporary events. For this article we started with the study of the biography and the work of William Walton, which led us to discover a possible connection with the thinking of Karl Marx. Our investigations have led us to consider that Walton’s writings on Spain helped to form the opinions expressed by Marx in his press articles.