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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Constructing Catalan Identity
    sub title: memory, imagination, and the medieval
  name:
    name part: Vargas, Michael A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 197 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Michael A. Vargas inventories the significant people, signal events and familiar icons that constitute the Catalan collective memory, from Wilfred the Hairy and Sant Jordi to the mountain monastery of Montserrat, red peasant caps and human towers in town squares. He then considers how that inventory is employed to posit a brilliant political heritage at the forefront of modern European democracy, and for some, to build a powerful independence movement. As the future of Catalonia remains fraught, this book offers a lively and engaging exploration of how we draw upon history to confront contemporary challenges.
  table of contents: Events and Accidents -- Princes and People -- Patrons, Protectors, and Creative Defenders -- Castle, Coast, and Cathedral -- Decadence and Renaissance -- Medievalizing and Modernizing -- Fighting Words -- Epilogue: In an October of Another Year.
  note: Michael A. Vargas.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Nationalism
    geographic: Spain
    geographic: Catalonia
  subject:
    topic: Collective memory
    geographic: Spain
    geographic: Catalonia
  classification: DP302.C62 V37 2018
  identifier: 3319767437
  identifier: 9783319767437
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180208
    record change date: 20181023092621.0
    record identifier: in00004002093
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng