Sumario: | With the Bourbon Restoration, the political system that would mark the following decades of Spanish history was consolidated. We know it as the liberal state, and it covered all spheres of society, including higher education. The creation of a liberal university according to the new model was completed, inhabited by a new type of student, a liberal student. We want to know who was part of this group, what was its origin and composition and how it evolved. We are interested in seeing how he faced his academic years, in which he related to the physical spaces, the legislation or the teaching staff of this new university. We aspire to understand how he lived the day to day of his student condition, both within the faculties and in the city that welcomed them, and to get closer to his mentality through the manifestations that he carried out as a corporation. To do so, we focus on an intermediate university, that of Valencia, small enough to be comprehensive, but important enough to be largely representative of the generality. In short, it is about drawing the new student type, with its changes and its permanence, connected with the liberal system of which it was both a result and a member, between the years that separated the coups d'etat of 1875 and 1936.
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