Catalunya, One Nation, Two States: An Ethnographic Study of Nonviolent Resistance to Assimilation

by Alexander Alland Jr. and Sonia Alland

Book Overview

Few historians and fewer lay people know that the first feudal constitution to recognize equality between the burghers and nobles was established in 1150 in Catalunya, sixty-five years before the signing of the Magna Carta in England. In the fifteenth century the Corts of Barcelona (a legislative body) established the principle of a "limited" monarchy obliged to govern according to laws, while guarding a degree of royal power. These facts lie at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403974403
• ISBN13: 9781403974402
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"