SPANISH IDENTITY IN THE AGE OF NATIONS

First published in Spanish in 2001, this book was quickly recognised as a monumental achievement by one of Spains most original and engaging historians. Alvarez-Juncos book is a path breaking study of the development of Spanish national identity (the idea of Sp ain) from the end of the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. It breaks away from an academic obsession with the sub-nationalism of Catalonia and the Basque Country to examine the predominant form of national consciousness, against which they reacted.