CATALONIA -- 1714-2014
1714-2014
Albert Sanchez Piñol
Gossip On the evening of September 11 last year was listening to a
radio station statewide intervened when Antonio Bolaño, talks exalted,
former advisor Montilla, dispatching
oneself at ease with the successful demonstration. Bolaño described
Catalonia as a place for sovereignty so rarefied, so intellectually
crazy, some even mentioned "outrageous" and "republican monarchy". Mr.
Bolaño someone should have said two things. A: the expression
monarchical republicanism is a term used strictly academic historians to
describe the political philosophy that reigned in Catalonia before 1714
and two: ignorance almost always arm in arm's ridiculous.
The
events of 1714 have generated many revisionist efforts that it is
impossible to squeeze in an article all arguments of denial megaphone.
Here are the main ones. Gossip speech Casanova September 11 makes it
clear that the Catalans and Spain fought for the king. Indeed, the last
plea of the Catalan government, in circumstances extremely pathetic, it
invokes the Catalan struggle "for freedom from Spain." Revisionism does
not say what is the meaning of the Spanish word was radically different
from the present. Historians have defined Spain as a 1713 "Composite
State", a kind of confederal system. That is, the latter proclaimed
Casanova was perfectly consistent with the defense of Freedom and
constitutions. Gossip In any case, know where the authors have removed
the portion of the revisionist claims "Espanyol" of Casanova? Castellví.
Francis Castellvi was exiled Austrian who wrote the monumental
narrative history; guided by the desire to immortalize the Catalans
fight for their freedom. What is revisionism? Of the more than five
thousand pages Castellvi we take a tiny portion and excludes the other
4,999 pages. Bravo. In fact, the last Day, the PP pay for all the
Catalan newspaper published the same fragment September 11,
decontextualized. Gossip This is typical procedure denier. Take a time
undoubtedly genuine document, and extrapolated omitted all other
documents that contradict. To put it another way: imagine that you see a
weather report of 7 December 1941, stating that the East Pacific that
day there was a big storm. The revisionist conclusion would be: "The
document shows that the aircraft could not fly, therefore, the attack on
Pearl Harbor never existed." Gossip repression Philip was not so bad,
thanks the new regime Catalonia progressed economically. This is like
saying that the Franco industrialized Catalonia. The modern
historiography has made it clear: the war, Catalonia flourished despite
the new regime and not because of him. Regarding the Bourbon repression,
the latest research suggests precisely the opposite direction: it was
even worse than previously thought. The practice of the Bourbon army was
burning in any town where Tope with minimal resistance. A state
policy-based fires, deportations and executions. However, although
elevating the story category, the Citizens Party, his website "Vamos
tell diadas" he states that "During the Site Plan Peoples Barcelona
Barcelona not only acogieron sin problemas las tropas sitiadoras, but
los campesinos hicieron pingües business with her, "(sic). At this time
of historical research Citizens continue to maintain a website like
Vamosacontardiadas.com is not a phenomenon that has been explained from
demagoguery, but psychoanalysis. Gossip The fierce resistance Barcelona
was caused by a handful of ambitious politicians and aristocrats who
manipulate an ignorant rabble. Highlight this argument because it is 300
denier years of use. The botiflers the time already mentioned, today
and behold, the same process is claimed sovereignty. The problem is that
we have the minutes of the parliamentary votes of the time: in the
first instance nobles voted against Barcelona resisted, and only
rectified by popular pressure. Gossip The Catalan side only advocated a
outdated system of medieval charters and privileges of nobility. It is
urgent, urgentíssim recover Victor's Iron and its Catalan Public Law.
Institutions in Catalonia until the decree of Nueva Planta (1987). Iron
illuminates this magnificent building was Constitutions, where even
habeas corpus and other measures envisaged to limit royal power. The
succession war in the Peninsula was in fact a conflict between two
political models. In Castile prevailing principle: "The word 'ley del
Rey." And yet, in Catalonia, the royal figure was subject to local
institutions. So as an autocrat Philip V exclaimed: "Recent cuts have
left them to me (in Catalan) more Republican than the English" (sic).
And it is for this reason that historians refer to the Catalan as
"republican monarchy". I understand now, Mr. Bolaño understands?
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