STREET NAMES AND POLITICAL REGIMES IN AN ANDALUSIAN TOWN

The installation of each of the three socially transformative regimes of twentieth-century Spain (the Second Republic, the military dictator ship of Francisco Franco, and the restoration of democracy following h is death) has been marked by sweeping changes in the street names of t he Andalusian town of Almonte. This paper considers how the content of these toponymic changes reflects the goals, tactics, ideology, and et hos of each successive regime as it stipulated a new relationship betw een the inhabitants and those who govern them; the Second Republic use d street names to advance its educational agenda, the dictatorship dep loyed toponyms to threaten the townspeople, and the socialist democrac y fashioned a crafty symbolic compromise aimed at ending the onomastic cycle of victors and vanquished.