Tortella Catalonia in Spain

History and Myth
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-54951-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Economic History

This book explores the complex history of Catalonia in relation to Spain from an economic and political perspective. It begins in the Middle Ages and ends in the present day, analysing the intricate political problems of modern day Catalonia within a context of European integration and nationalism.

Gabriel Tortella is Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. He received the King Juan Carlos Economics Prize in 1994, and has been President of the International Economic History Association, the Spanish Economic History Association, and Chairman of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History, Frankfurt. Among his many publications, recent books include The Development of Modern Spain, The Origins of the Twenty-First, with J. A. Consiglio and J. C. Martínez Oliva, Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean with Gloria Quiroga, Entrepreneurship and Growth (Palgrave, 2013), and with José Luis García Ruiz, Spanish Money and Banking (Palgrave, 2013).

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Research

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Tortella, Gabriel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Catalonia in Spain;4
1.1;Contents;7
1.2;List of Figures;11
1.3;Introduction;13
2;1 Medieval Origins of the Spanish Nation;17
2.1;The Slow Birth of Spain: One Thousand Years of History (479–1479);17
2.2;Medieval Catalonia;21
2.3;Toward Union;26
2.4;The Penultimate Step;33
2.5;Union;37
2.6;Conclusions;42
2.7;References;44
3;2 Catalonia in Early Modern Spain;45
3.1;The Difficult Welding of Two Crowns;45
3.2;The Seventeenth-Century Crisis;52
3.2.1;A Time of Depression;52
3.2.2;The War of the Reapers, the First Catalan Rebellion;55
3.3;Recovery;60
3.4;References;64
4;3 Reform and Progress in the Eighteenth Century;65
4.1;The War of Succession, Catalonia’s Second Rebellion;65
4.2;The Nueva Planta: Political, Economic, and Fiscal Innovations;73
4.2.1;The Political Nueva Planta;73
4.2.2;The Fiscal Nueva Planta: The Catastro;74
4.3;The Onset of Catalonia’s Development;80
4.3.1;Population;80
4.3.2;Agriculture;81
4.4;Catalonia in the Spanish Empire: Commerce and Industry;83
4.4.1;Commerce;83
4.4.2;Industry;85
4.5;Conclusions;87
4.6;References;88
5;4 The Peninsular War: Birth of a Nation;91
5.1;Introduction;91
5.2;Spain’s War of Independence;93
5.3;The ‘War of the French’ in Catalonia;97
5.4;Conclusions;100
5.5;References;101
6;5 Liberalism and Reaction;103
6.1;Economic Stagnation and Political Paralysis;103
6.1.1;A Growing Gap;103
6.1.2;Reactionary Catalonia: The Carlist Wars;105
6.1.3;The Slow Establishment of the Liberal System;110
6.2;Catalonia’s Political Weight;118
6.3;The Beginnings of Industrialization;130
6.3.1;Slow Recovery;130
6.3.2;The Rhetoric and the Cost of Protectionism;136
6.4;The Catalan ‘Renaissance’;141
6.5;Nationalism and the 1898 Crisis;146
6.6;Conclusions;149
6.7;References;152
7;6 The Twentieth Century (1900–1975);155
7.1;Spain in the Twentieth-Century Crisis;155
7.2;Catalanism in the Happy Twenties;163
7.2.1;The Lliga: Catalanists in the Spanish Government;163
7.2.2;Catalanism and the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship;168
7.3;The Second Republic;173
7.3.1;The Catalan Statute of Autonomy;173
7.3.2;From Revolution to Civil War;176
7.4;The Civil War;181
7.5;Postwar Repression;187
7.6;Economic Stabilization and Development;191
7.6.1;Politics in the Twilight of Fascism;191
7.6.2;Economic Development in Spain and Catalonia;194
7.6.3;Industrialization and State Intervention;195
7.6.4;The Problems of Catalan Banks;197
7.6.5;Commercial and Fiscal Balances: The Early Studies;199
7.7;Conclusions;200
7.8;References;203
8;7 From Dictatorship to Democracy;205
8.1;Introduction;205
8.2;Transition to Democracy;208
8.3;Is Still Catalonia ‘The Factory of Spain?;218
8.3.1;Crisis and Change in the Spanish Economy;218
8.3.2;The Catalan Economy at the Turn of the Century;222
8.4;The Generalitat in Action;223
8.4.1;First Steps;223
8.4.2;The 1979 Estatut: The Beginnings of Enforced Catalanization;225
8.4.3;The Banca Catalana Affair;230
8.4.4;Success and Failure of a Coercive Linguistic Policy;243
8.4.5;Controlling the means of Communication;249
8.4.6;The Catalan Population;252
8.4.7;The Education Policy of the Generalitat;257
8.4.7.1;Monolingualism;257
8.4.7.2;Nationalism;261
8.4.7.3;Nationalist History;264
8.4.8;The Social Support for Independence;274
8.5;Some Hotly Debated Issues;279
8.5.1;Fiscal Balances;279
8.5.2;Commercial Balances;283
8.5.3;Political Consequences of Separation;286
8.6;References;293
9;8 Conclusions;295
9.1;The Weight of History;295
9.2;Nation and Nationalism;298
9.3;The Causes of Catalan Nationalism;303
9.4;Why Now?;305
9.5;References;312
10;Bibliography;314
11;Index;317

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Medieval Origins of Catalonia and Spain.- Chapter 3. Catalonia in Early Modern Spain.- Chapter 4. Reform and Recovery in the Eighteenth Century.- Chapter 5. Catalonia and Spain during the Napoleonic Wars.- Chapter 6. The Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 7. The Twentieth Century, 1900-1975: Nationalism, Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship.- Chapter 8. Present-day Catalonia, 1976-2016: Politics, Economics, Education and Propaganda.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriel Tortella is Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. He received the King Juan Carlos Economics Prize in 1994, and has been President of the International Economic History Association, the Spanish Economic History Association, and Chairman of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History, Frankfurt. Among his many publications, recent books include The Development of Modern Spain , The Origins of the Twenty-First , with J. A. Consiglio and J. C. Martínez Oliva, Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean with Gloria Quiroga, Entrepreneurship and Growth (Palgrave, 2013), and with José Luis García Ruiz, Spanish Money and Banking (Palgrave, 2013).