by Pierre Vilar · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408112389
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This book, 'History of Spain', is a bestseller that offers an innovative vision of Spanish history, from its origins to the political change of 1996. It integrates the most recent research findings and aims to combat the old topic of 'Spain is different'. The author vindicates the positive features that are manifested in the conquest of America, the importance of the Enlightenment in the Peninsula or the early course of its modernization process. Joseph Pérez states that, like all countries, Spain has its originality but that it does not constitute a separate world, explaining the reasons for a peculiarity more apparent than real. The author's purpose is to demonstrate that Spain belongs to the family of European nations not only since 1985, with the adhesion to the community institutions, but always, or almost always.
Pierre Vilar was a French historian specialized in the history of Catalonia and Hispanism. He is considered one of the most authoritative 20th-century historians for the history of Spain, for both the Ancien Régime and modern history. He and Jaume Vicens Vives were among the most influential historians of Catalonia.
