SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE 19TH CENTURY MILITARY RECRUITMENT

In the present work we go over the Spanish political and social circumstances in the second half of the 19thcentury, highlighting those that have a relationship or direct impact on military life, particularly war activity; a reality that helps to understand the great social injustice of the recruitment, which we analyse in its dimensions of greater social impact: the rules that regulate it, length of military service, bonds, exemptions and substitutions to end with some literary references contained in the works of two authors - Patricio de la Escosura and Leopoldo Alas, Clarin-, where the treatment given to these issues is verified.