Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain where political ideologies have sought to impose their interpretation of Catalan reality.
This book situates Catalonia within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of nation-making.
Author(s): Andrew Dowling
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 184
City: London
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Introduction
1 Origins, from pre-history to the Romans
2 New influences. Visigoths, Christianity and the Arabs, 400–800
3 Consolidation and expansion 800–1150
4 Aragon and the Mediterranean Empire 1150–1410
5 Decline and revolt 1415–1660
6 1660–1830 Political incorporation, economic advance
7 1830–1939 Social conflict, national revival and ideological dispute
8 Francoism and the democratic experience 1939–2008
Epilogue: the failed push for Catalan independence
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