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Beginning with an analysis of Catalonia's integration within the Spanish nation-building project between from 1770, and following the growing tensions between both the Spanish state and its allies and Catalan social, cultural and political elites, this book focuses on the reasons behind the rise of Catalan nationalism in the late nineteenth century. The events culminated in the late 1880s when a political and cultural movement emerged which affirmed that Catalonia was a separate nation and that it should therefore gave a high degree of political autonomy from Spain. This represented one of the most important developments of Spanish nineteenth century history, with the 'Catalan question' thereafter never far from the centre of the Spanish political stage. Smith also sets Catalonia within a broader European context, arguing that the study of the rise of Catalan nationalism has lessons for our overall understanding of regional and national identities. The Catalan case shows that rather than constituting two separate poles that never touch, there can be a considerable degree of ambiguity and overlap between these identities.

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Swing Time

Beginning with an analysis of Catalonia's integration within the Spanish nation-building project between from 1770, and following the growing tensions between both the Spanish state and its allies and Catalan social, cultural and political elites, this book focuses on the reasons behind the rise of Catalan nationalism in the late nineteenth century. The events culminated in the late 1880s when a political and cultural movement emerged which affirmed that Catalonia was a separate nation and that it should therefore gave a high degree of political autonomy from Spain. This represented one of the most important developments of Spanish nineteenth century history, with the 'Catalan question' thereafter never far from the centre of the Spanish political stage. Smith also sets Catalonia within a broader European context, arguing that the study of the rise of Catalan nationalism has lessons for our overall understanding of regional and national identities. The Catalan case shows that rather than constituting two separate poles that never touch, there can be a considerable degree of ambiguity and overlap between these identities.

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Beginning with an analysis of Catalonia's integration within the Spanish nation-building project between from 1770, and following the growing tensions between both the Spanish state and its allies and Catalan social, cultural and political elites, this book focuses on the reasons behind the rise of Catalan nationalism in the late nineteenth century. The events culminated in the late 1880s when a political and cultural movement emerged which affirmed that Catalonia was a separate nation and that it should therefore gave a high degree of political autonomy from Spain. This represented one of the most important developments of Spanish nineteenth century history, with the 'Catalan question' thereafter never far from the centre of the Spanish political stage. Smith also sets Catalonia within a broader European context, arguing that the study of the rise of Catalan nationalism has lessons for our overall understanding of regional and national identities. The Catalan case shows that rather than constituting two separate poles that never touch, there can be a considerable degree of ambiguity and overlap between these identities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143111641
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/05/2017
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 464
Sales rank: 60,251
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Angel Smith is Reader in Modern Spanish History at the University of Leeds, UK. He has worked predominately in the areas of Spanish labour and social history and national identities and nationalisms in Spain. His most recent works are The Agony of Spanish Liberalism: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 1913–23 (edited with Francisco J. Romero Salvadó), Historical Dictionary of Spain, 2nd ed. (2009) and Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction: Catalan Labour and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898–1923 (2007)..

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

October 27, 1975

Place of Birth:

Willesden, London, England

Education:

B.A. in English, King's College at Cambridge University, 1998

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. King, Patria and Nation: Catalonia from the Ancien Regime to Liberalism
2. Catalonia in the Spanish Nation-Building Project, 1814-68
3. Liberalism, Romanticism and the Consolidation of a Catalan Cultural Identity, 1814-74
4. Centralization, Decentralization and the Construction of a Catalan Political Regionalism, 1814-74
5. The Catalan Haute Bourgeoisie and the State, 1875-98
6. The Travails of Liberal Catalanism, 1875-98
7. The Church, the Right, and the Forging of a Catalan Nationalist Movement, 1875-98
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