by Ignasi Riera · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401540806
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«Los catalanes de Franco» is the historical essay by Ignasi Riera, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (559 pages, in Spanish).
It investigates Catalan support for Francoism through the profiles of military officers, clergymen, politicians, businessmen and journalists who sustained the regime in Catalonia. It analyzes their loyalties and motivations, what Franco meant to them, the role of Catholic families and the construction of cultural identities over forty years.
The edition belongs to the Historia viva collection and includes 32 pages of plates with black-and-white photographs. The work was originally published in Catalan as «Els catalans de Franco».
For readers interested in the contemporary history of Catalonia and in the socio-political study of Francoism.
Ignasi Riera i Gassiot was a Spanish politician. A member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia and the Initiative for Catalonia Greens, he served in the Parliament of Catalonia from 1987 to 1999.
