Nationalism and the Nation in the Iberian Peninsula

Nationalism has recently been the focus of considerable interest, but relatively little is known about nation-building and competing identities in Spain and Portugal.

Ms Clare Mar-Molinero Lecturer in Spanish Socio-linguistics,University of Southampton Angel Smith University of Leeds

Contents: Angel Smith and Clare Mar-Molinero, The Myths and Realities of Nation-Building in the Iberian Peninsula -- Part One: Centrist State-Building: The Imposition of a 'National' Hegemony -- Abdool Karim A. Vakil, Nationalising Cultural Politics: Representations of the Portuguese 'Discoveries' and the Rhetoric of Identitarianism, 1880-1926 -- Alan Freeland, The People and the Poet: Portuguese National Identity and the Camões Tercentenary (1880) -- Clare Mar-Molinero, The Role of Language in Spanish Nation-Building -- José Alvarez Junco, The Nation-Building Process in Spanish Nineteenth-Century Spain -- Sebastian Balfour, 'The Lion and the Pig': Nationalism and National Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Spain -- Francisco J. Romero Salvadó, The Failure of the Liberal Project of the Spanish Nation-State, 1909-1938 -- Helen Graham, Community, Nation and State in Republican Spain, 1931-1938 -- Michael Richards, Constructing the Nationalist State: Self-Sufficiency and Regeneration in the Early Franco Years -- Part Two: The Nationalist and Regionalist Counter-Consciousness: Competing and Conflicting Identities -- Angel Smith, Sardana, Zarzuela or Cake Walk? Nationalism and Internationalism in the Discourse, Practice and Culture of the Early Twentieth-Century Barcelona Labour Movement -- Josep R. Llobera, The Role of Commemorations in (Ethno)Nation-Building: The Case of Catalonia -- Jeremy MacClancy, Bilingualism and Multinationalism in the Basque Country -- Benjamín Tejerina Montaña, Language and Basque Nationalism: Collective Identity, Social Conflict and Institutionalisation -- Tracy Henderson, Language and Identity in Galicia: The Current Orthographic Debate -- Part Three: Supra-National Structures and the European Union -- Alan Whitehead, Spain, European Regions and City States