Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State
Alternative Routes To Nationalist Mobilisation
Publication Year: 1997
Published by: University of Nevada Press
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Introduction
"Es la realidad del País.” This is a statement I heard more than once when conducting research on Basque nationalism in the Basque Country. It conveys a sense of resignation about the deep polarization of Basque politics and society that has accompanied the expression of Basque nationalism in the...

Chapter Two. The Centralizing State
If the structures of the early Spanish state favored the construction of a Basque identity through foral autonomy, they were not immediately conducive to Basque nationalism for at least two reasons. First, the fueros maintained the individuality of the Basque provinces, which rendered problematic...

Chapter Three. The Authoritarian State
The emergence of Basque nationalism stems from the specific historical sequence of the Spanish state, more specifically its transition from confederal to centralizing and the agency this change triggered from Bizkaia’s conservative elites. Prior to the Second Republic and the Franco dictatorship,...

Chapter Four. The Democratic State
By the time Spain began its transition toward democracy, Basque nationalism was a potent political force. The sequential chain represented by the institutional mutations of the Spanish state had taken it from a marginal movement spearheaded by conservative politicians to a vigorous, popular, and...

Chapter Five. Basque Paradiplomacy
The last chapters showed how the historical trajectory of the Basque Country from the late nineteenth century onward involved the development of nationalism as an increasingly powerful political force. The previous chapter explained that the transition to democracy in Spain featured the creation of the....
E-ISBN-13: 9780874177312
Print-ISBN-13: 9780874177220
Page Count: 336
Illustrations: 4 maps
Publication Year: 1997
OCLC Number: 794927906
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