BOOK: Eduardo CEBREIROS & Tiphaine LE YONCOURT, El origen del regionalismo en la Europa contemporánea (Madrid: Dykinson, 2024), 378 p. ISBN 9788410708525, 28,50€

 

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Abstract:

To understand our current autonomous State, it is essential to look back and study the phenomena of vindication of our own identity, carried through the region, experienced since the mid-19th century. Only in this way will it be possible to understand why Spain has been divided into the Autonomous Communities into which it has done so, and whose institutions, in addition, enjoy a high level of self-government today. In this sense, the present work collects the result of the research carried out by sixteen university professors, both national and foreign, who, using a historical-legal approach, have reflected on regionalization, both at a more general or theoretical level, as well as at a particular level, highlighting the evolution of this movement in territories that they know well, both in Spain (Galicia, the Basque Country, Navarra, Catalonia, Valencia, Castilla y León or Andalusia) and in Europe (France, Portugal, Italy and Germany).

Table of contents:  

Chapter 1: Administrative Regionalism During the Bourbon Restoration

Chapter 2: The Preliminaries of the Statutes of Autonomy: An Approach to the Normative Framework of Autonomy and the Debate Surrounding the Historical Milestones That Justify It

Chapter 3: The Central Junta of Andalusia: At the Origin of Andalusian Autonomous Consciousness

Chapter 4: Galicianism and Region: In Search of a New Territorial Organization

Chapter 5: Regionalism in the Foral Version (1839–1894)

Chapter 6: The Long Journey of Regionalism in Catalonia: Elements for Reflection

Chapter 7: Regionalism by Injustice: León and Castile or the Reaffirmation of a Historical Political Identity (1859–1939)

Chapter 8: The Complicated and Arduous Path Toward the Statute of Castile and León (1975–1983)

Chapter 9: Valencia: From Kingdom-Province to a Frustrated Joint Community (1808–1925)

Chapter 10: The Andalusian Process or the Popular Disruption of the State Autonomy Model: The Case of the December 1977 Mobilizations

Chapter 11: Regionalism and the Central State in France

Chapter 12: The Regionalist Movement in France: The Case of Brittany

Chapter 13: Regionalism in Portugal (16th to 21st Centuries)

Chapter 14: Regionalism and Democracy in Italy: From the Constituent Assembly to the Lack of Constitutional Application (1946–1976)

Chapter 15: The Origin of Regionalism in Germany

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