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A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movementsA distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the contrasts between the Scottish and Catalan experiences across a five-hundred-year period, beginning with the royal marriages that brought about union with their more powerful neighbors, England and Castile respectively, and following the story through the centuries from the end of the Middle Ages until todays dramatic events. J. H. Elliott examines the political, economic, social, cultural, and emotional factors that divide Scots and Catalans from the larger nations to which their fortunes were joined. He offers new insights into the highly topical subject of the character and development of European nationalism, the nature of separatism, and the sense of grievance underlying the secessionist aspirations that led to the Scottish referendum of 2014, the illegal Catalan referendum of October 2017, and the resulting proclamation of an independent Catalan republic.

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The similarities between Scotland and Catalonia are a modern political - photo 1
The similarities between Scotland and Catalonia are a modern political shibboleth, but they have been far from historically given. Sir John Elliotts achievement in weaving the two stories together is a masterpiece of comparative and narrative history, one no other living historian could equal. Throughout the book, narrative is combined with multiple levels of explanation perhaps the hardest of all challenges facing the historian. As it approaches the present, the book dramatically recounts the rapid growth of separatism in both countries since 2000, and Elliott identifies as crucial the process of identity construction the selective appropriation of each countrys past to generate a collective identity in which historical victimhood and a promise of a better future have been combined in a manner both mobilising and divisive. Not only a master of narrative, John Elliott is a wonderful writer. Not since David Hume has a historian written English of such unforced elegance, such clarity of mind.
John Robertson, Clare College, Cambridge
Elliotts book is a formidable exercise in comparative history. He skilfully examines the political, demographic, economic and cultural dynamics of Scotland in Britain and Catalonia in Spain throughout the centuries and he unravels the shifting and often tortuous complexity of the subject with the fluidity to which his readers are accustomed.
Xavier Gil, University of Barcelona
The similarities and contrasts between Scotland and Catalonia throw many fundamental aspects of Scottish history into sharp relief. The result is not only a masterful exercise in comparative history. It is also a compelling account of British history from a Scottish perspective, and a superb introduction to Scottish history itself.
Dauvit Broun, University of Glasgow
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Copyright 2018 J. H. Elliott
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press) without written permission from the publishers.
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The distant origins of this book are to be found in the 1950s, when I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to undertake some two years of research in Spain. Much of my time was spent in Catalonia, hunting down documents in its central and regional archives for a doctoral dissertation on the origins of the Catalan rebellion of 1640 against the royal government in Madrid, eventually published in 1963 under the title The Revolt of the Catalans . During that time I immersed myself in Catalan life and made many friends with whom I remained in contact, but I moved on to other topics and assumed that my close engagement with Catalan history was at an end. The publication of this book shows that I was mistaken.
It so happened that, at the time when the movement for Scottish independence was gathering momentum, I was casting around for a historical subject that would lead me into new fields. At the same moment separatists in Catalonia were also embarking on a bid for independence. I found myself wondering if there were any parallels between the two movements that might be worth exploring. Among those I consulted was the eminent historian of early modern Scotland, the late Jenny Wormald, who encouraged me to go ahead. I only regret that she is no longer with us to deliver a characteristically forthright verdict on the way the project turned out.
As far as I was concerned, the history of Scotland was unknown territory, and I have learnt a great deal, not only from the historical literature, much of which is of the highest quality, but also from Scottish friends and acquaintances who have done their best to keep me on the right lines and point me in the right direction. Among them are Colin Kidd, who read and made valuable comments on an earlier draft of the book; John Robertson, whose writings have taught me much about the origins and consequences of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707; Dauvit Broun and Murray Pittock, both of whom I met at a recent symposium in Edinburgh on Scottish identity; and Robert Frost, who shares my interest in composite monarchies and who has enriched the subject through his deep knowledge of the Polish-Lithuanian version of the genre. I am also grateful to him for welcoming my wife and me on a visit to Aberdeen in August 2015 and taking us on excursions that enabled us to get a sense of the region and acquaint us with some of its most important and picturesque sites. On that same Scottish tour we were welcomed in Glasgow by Hamish Scott and Julia Smith, who again generously devoted their time to driving us to historic houses and sites, including that of the old Scottish coronation ceremony at Scone.
Over and above his kindness to us in Glasgow I am deeply indebted to Hamish Scott for all that he has done to improve my book, even when in the midst of moving house from Glasgow to Oxford. While disclaiming any specialist knowledge of the history of his home country, he has read the entire text, offered many helpful and informed suggestions at every stage of the proceedings, and saved me from many errors. In making his comments he has never allowed me to forget the importance of placing the history of Scotland within the broad context of British and European history. No author could hope to find a more acute unofficial editor.
Catalonia, unlike Scotland, was hardly terra incognita for me. My knowledge of the history of Catalonia, however, as of Spain more generally, tended to peter out at the turn of the nineteenth century. Angel Smith of the University of Leeds, an expert on nineteenth-century Catalan nationalism, kindly read my nineteenth-century chapters and set me right on a number of points. James Amelang of the Autonomous University of Madrid has generously allowed me to take advantage of his unrivalled bibliographical knowledge, while Jon Arrieta Alberdi of the Faculty of Law of the University of the Basque Country has shared with me over the years the fruits of his pioneering researches into Spanish and Basque juridical and institutional history and his explorations into different types of historical union.
I have also done my best to keep abreast of current developments. In doing so, I have gained much from discussions with Spanish friends, including my former Oxford pupil, Cayetana lvarez de Toledo, who provided various opportunities for me to try out my ideas in Spain, both in private and in public, and arranged what proved to be instructive personal encounters in the monastery of Poblet and Barcelonas City Hall. I have also received helpful information and advice over the years from William Chislett of the Instituto Elcano in Madrid; and, during the last few months, from the Madrid correspondent of the New York Times , Raphael Minder. Where I needed advice on constitutional questions I was fortunate to be able to draw on the expertise of Professor Josep M. a Castell Andreu of the University of Barcelonas Faculty of Law.
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