The Rise of Catalan Identity: Social Commitment and Political Engagement in the Twentieth Century

This volume helps us to understand that the current political disorders in Catalonia have deep cultural roots. It focuses on the rise of Catalan cultural, national and linguistic identity in the 20^th century. What is happening in Catalonia? What lies behind its political conflicts?

Catalan identity has been evolving for centuries, starting in early medieval ages (11^th and 12^lve centuries). It is not a modern phenomenon. The emergence of imperial Spain in the 16 c. and the French Ancien Rég...