Ángel Bahamonde Magro (born 1949) is a Spanish historian. He is professor of Contemporary History at the

Charles III University of Madrid University Charles III of Madrid ( es, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Established in 1989, UC3M is an institution with a distinctly international profile. It offers a broad rang ...

(UC3M).

Biography

Born in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

in 1949, he earned a PhD in history from the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

(UCM), reading a dissertation titled ''El horizonte económico de la burguesía isabelina. Madrid 1856-1866'', supervised by

José María Jover José María Jover Zamora ( Cartagena, 5 June 1920 - Madrid, 14 November, 2006) was a Spanish historian. Career He was the most influential figure in developing contemporary Spanish historiography. In 1949, he became professor of "Universal Histor ...

. In 1992, he was appointed to a chair in the area of "Contemporary History" at the UCM. He moved to the UC3M in 2003. Prior to that he was also a lecturer at Toulouse-Le Mirail and Paris-Saint Denis. He has worked on the research topics of the

social history Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

of cities during the 19th century, history of communications and their role in the modern Spanish state building, the study of the elites in Spanish society, the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...

and the intermingling of politics and sport in 20th century Spain.

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