Introduction
Chapter One Origins, from Pre-History to the Romans
Chapter Two New Influences. Visigoths, Christianity and the Arabs, 400-800
Chapter Three Consolidation and Expansion 800 to 1150
Chapter Four Aragon and the Mediterranean Empire 1150 to 1410
Chapter Five Decline and Revolt 1415 to 1660
Chapter Six Political incorporation, economic advance 1660 to 1830
Chapter Seven Social conflict, national revival and ideological dispute 1830-1939
Chapter Eight Francoism and the Democratic Experience 1939-2008
Epilogue The failed push for Catalan independence
Bibliography
Biography
Andrew Dowling is Reader in Spanish History at Cardiff University and researches the history and politics of Catalonia. He has previously published The Rise of Catalan Independence: Spain’s Territorial Crisis with Routledge in 2018 and Catalonia since the Spanish Civil War: Reconstructing the Nation (Sussex Academic Press, 2012).
