num_pages: 360
description: A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of independence 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.
language: English
title: Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion
publisher: Yale University Press