Catalunya, One Nation, Two States : An Ethnographical Study of Nonviolent Resistance to Assimilation,9781403974396

Catalunya, One Nation, Two States : An Ethnographical Study of Nonviolent Resistance to Assimilation

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ISBN13: 9781403974396
ISBN10: 140397439X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-12-26
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Few historians and fewer lay people know that the first feudal constitution to recognize equality between the burghers and nobles was established in 1150 in Catalunya, sixty-five years before the signing of the Magna Carta in England. In the fifteenth century the Corts of Barcelona (a legislative body) established the principle of a 'limited' monarchy obliged to govern according to laws, while guarding a degree of royal power. These facts lie at the foundation of a culture of nonviolent resistance to assimilation that has been used to combat state power in France and Spain ever since.

Author Biography

Alexander Alland, Jr. is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association, the Royal Anthropological Institute, Sigma Xi, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is also the author of Race in Mind: Race, IQ, and Other Racisms (Palgrave Macmillan 2002), and of Crisis and Commitment: The Life History of a French Social Movement (2001).

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1
Chapter One The How and Why of This Book 7
Chapter Two Framing the Study: The Origin and Meaning of Nationalism 37
Chapter Three The People of Cerbère Speak 65
Chapter Four The People of Portbou Speak 93
Chapter Five A New Direction 115
Chapter Six The State of Catalan in Bosselló (Roussillon) 133
Chapter Seven Northern Catalans Speak 149
Chapter Eight Language and Identity on the Horns of a Dilemma 175
Appendix 191
Bibliography 197
Index 203

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