Boundaries : The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees / Peter Sahlins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sahlins, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-determination, National--Cerdaña (Spain and France)--History.

Self-determination, National.

Pyrenees--History.

Pyrenees.

Cerdaña (Spain and France)--History.

Cerdaña (Spain and France).

Catalonia (Spain)--History.

Catalonia (Spain).

Roussillon (France : Province)--History.

Roussillon (France : Province).

France--Boundaries--Spain.

France.

Spain--Boundaries--France.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 351 p. ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1991.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is an account of two dimension of state and nation building in France and Spain since the seventeenth century--the invention of a national boundary line and the making of Frenchmen and Spaniards. It is also a history of Catalan rural society in the Cerdanya, a valley in the eastern Pyrenees divided between Spain and France in 1659. This study shuttles between two levels, between the center and the periphery. It connects the "macroscopic" political and diplomatic history of France and Spain, from the Old Regime monarchies to the national territorial states of the later nineteenth century; and the "molecular" history--the historical ethnography--of Catalan village communities, rural nobles, and peasants in the borderland. On the frontier, these two histories come together, and they can be told as one.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures, Tables, Maps, and Illustrations

Abbreviations

Note

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Treaty of the Pyrenees and the Division of the Cerdanya

2. The Frontiers of the Old Regime Sate

3. Resistance and Identity under the Old Regime

4. Community, Class, and Nation in the Eighteenth-Century Borderland

5. The French Revolution

6. Territory and Identity During the Spanish Crises (1808-1840)

7. The Treaties of Bayonne and the Delimitation of the Boundary

8. Conclusion: Identity and Counter-Identity

Epilogue: States and Nations since 1868

Appendix A. Texts of the Division of the Cerdanya, 1659-1660 and 1868

Appendix B. Population, Marriage, and Property between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585129266

0585129266

9780520911215

0520911210

OCLC:

1149425011