Pervivència de Catalunya. La formació de la societat catalana i les seves identitats a l'època contemporània

This book doesn’t pretend to be a history of Catalonia during the contemporary era. It still is however a complete guide of the grand subjects wich have deternmined the the dynamism of the catalan society from 1714 until the year 2000. There are two central interests. The first is analizing in wich way and with wich elements has Catalonia been able to survive as an area with a very strong and different personality, situated between two strong states that ae Spain and France in a historical period in wich these states pushed their will to be uniform to the limit. In the second aspect it’s explained in wich way the different conscience of the catalans has been able to coexist and has persisted in a modern, urban and industrial society, where the local identities are often confronted and have achived a great deal of internal codification.

Jordi Cassasas Ymbert (Barcelona, 1948) is a doctor in contemporar history with the thesis Jaume Bofill i Mates (1878-1933). L’adscripció social i l’evolució política (1977) and was able to obrtain the PhD in his specialty in 1989. Nowadays he’s a honorary professor of the University of Barcelona. He’s one of the founders of Study Group of Catalan History and the Intellectuals (from 1990 until now) and he’s the director of its spokeperson: Cercles. Revista d’Històra Cultural (from 1998 until now). He’s been the director of the Subjective Web of Cultural History of the meditteranean area (1998-2012), codirector of the Library in Classics of Catalan Nationalism (30 volumes, 1983-1992) and he assessed many publications. From 2012 he became a member (nowadays honorary) of the Institute of Catalan Studies. From 2014 he presised the Barcelonian Ateneu and from 2016 the rectoral team of the Catalan University of Summer. In his latest book La voluntat i la quimera. El noucentisme català entre la Renaixença i el marxisme (prize Carles Rahola in essay 2016). In Afers he has published La fàbrica de les idees. Política i cultura a la Catalunya del segle XX (2009) and La nació dels catalans. El difícil procés històric de la nacionalització de Catalunya (2014).