Catalonia: A New History

<p><em>Catalonia: A New History</em> 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. </p><p>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. </p>