A People's History of Catalonia - Eaude Michael Eaude

Descriere A People's History of Catalonia - Eaude Michael Eaude

\nA history of Catalonia and its struggle for independence, from the 10th century to the present day \n \n At every home game of FC Barcelona, at 17 minutes and 14 seconds of play, the 100,000-capacity Camp Nou stadium is filled by the roar of IN-DE-PEN-DÈN-CI-A! Time stops for a second. History lives in the present...\n \nCatalonia's national consciousness has deep roots. There are countries twice the size with histories half as interesting. A People's History of Catalonia tells that history, from below, in all its richness and complexity. The region's struggle for independence has, for centuries, been violently resisted, the Catalan language suppressed and its leaders jailed. The fight of an oppressed nation for its sovereignty has often dovetailed with that of a militant working class for social justice.\n \nFrom the peasant revolts of the 15th century and the siege of Barcelona in 1714, to defeat in the Spanish Civil War, and the slow re-emergence of the workers' movement and anti-Francoist resistance in the years that followed, Michael Eaude tells a compelling story whose ending has yet to be written.\n

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9780745342139

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