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Approaches to the History of Spain
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.
The King's Other Body
Queen María of Castile, wife of Alfonso V, "the Magnanimous," king of the Crown of Aragon, governed Catalunya in the mid-fifteenth century while her husband conquered and governed the kingdom of Naples. For twenty-six years, she maintained a royal court and council separate from and roughly equivalent to those of Alfonso in Naples. Such legitimately sanctioned political authority is remarkable given that she ruled not as queen in her own right but rather as Lieutenant-General of Catalunya with powers equivalent to the king's. María does not fit conventional images of a queen as wife and mother; indeed, she had no children and so never served as queen-regent for any royal heirs in their min...
Foundations of National Identity
Since it emergence in the 19th century in response to feudalism, nationalism has been a mixed blessing. Originally seen as a positive force, often enough it has resulted in warfare and persecution of minorities, so much so that, over time, it has been considered a social evil whose apparent decline has been greeted as a positive development. The author disputes this or rather, he maintains that the picture that emerges is more complex: nationalism is not disappearing but has taken on a different form. What we are experiencing is an increasing autonomy of ethnonations, i.e. nations without a state, in the wake of a weakening of the multinational states and the transfer of their sovereignty upwards, in the case of Europe to the federation of the European Union, and downwards to the "ethnonations." Catalonia is the major case study in this book but it is embedded in a comprehensive theoretical framework as well as the historical and contemporary reality of Europe, opening up a new perspective. The author, one of the foremost scholars in this field, brilliantly succeeds in developing an original, clear and comprehensive vision of nationalism that is accessible to a wide readership.
Jaume Vicens Vives, mestre d'historiadors
L'any 2010 es commemora el centenari del naixement de l'historiador Jaume Vicens Vives, i la Universitat de Barcelona i el Centre d'Estudis Històrics Internacional fundat per ell han volgut retre-li homenatge i reconeixement. Aquest volum vol ser una aproximació a la complexa i rica figura de Jaume Vicens per la via dels testimonis, la memòria i els records, reunint les aportacions d'aquells que el van conèixer en l'exercici de la seva cÃtedra universitÃria com a professor, aixÃ- com a través de les diverses iniciatives que va endegar per tal d'assegurar la renovació de la ciència històrica en general i de la historiografia catalana en particular. Els articles, escrits per persones significades de l'Ãmbit cultural, posen l'èmfasi en aspectes ben diferents, des d'experiències acadèmiques fins a vivències personals. El retrat que dibuixen les aportacions tenen un denominador comú: el reconeixement d'un referent i la indiscutible empenta que Vicens els inoculÃ, encomanant-los el seu optimisme vital i engrescant-los a creure que, malgrat els temps difÃ-cils que els va tocar de viure, el futur arribaria ple d'esperança.
