Catalonia: A New History

Andrew Dowling

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032111919
• eBook ISBN: 9781000641608
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• 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
• Bibliography
• Index