Ludger Mees

The Basque Contention

Ethnicity, Politics, Violence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A definitive history of the wider political issues, up to present-day events, at the heart of the Basque Country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781032091624
• ISBN-10: 1032091622
• Artikelnr.: 69899440

Autorenporträt

Ludger Mees completed his PhD in History at the University of Bielefeld, Germany and was Assistant Professor at the same institution before taking up a lectureship at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao in 1991. Since 2004 he has been Professor of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country and between 2004 and 2009 he was also Vice-Chancellor. He is author, co-author or editor of 19 books and about 120 articles and book chapters in the fields of nationalism, social movements, historiography and agrarian history.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Retrieving the pirates
2. The context: Problems of state and nation building in France and
Spain
3. Basque particularism: The process of ethnogenesis from the 17th to
the 19th centuries
4. The claim for sovereignty: The evolution of Basque nationalism until
the Civil War (1895-1939)
5. Between resistance and accommodation: The Basque contention during
Francoism (1939-75)
6. Transition to democracy: Regional autonomy or independence? (1975-80)
7. The shape of autonomy and the problem of political violence (1980-95)
8. The radical decade (1995-2005)
9. From violence to politics: Nationalism and the end of ETA (2006-18)
Epilogue