Spanish Identity in the Age of Nations

• Author(s): José Alvarez Junco,
• Publisher: distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 417
• ISBN_10: 1781701733
  ISBN_13: 9781781701737
  
• Language: en

Description:... Spanish identity in the age of nations offers the first comprehensive account in any language of the formation and development of Spanish national identity from ancient times to the present. Much has been written on French, British and German nationalism, but remarkably little has been published on Spanish nationalism. Paradoxically, even in Spain there is much more on Basque, Catalan and other regional nationalisms than on Spanish identity. As a result, this study fills an enormous gap in the literature on Spanish history.This book traces the emergence and evolution of an initial collective i.