The Basque Contention
The Basque Contention

Author: Ludger Mees

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-19

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0429557655

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To the outside world, for some half a century, the words ‘Basque Country’ have provoked an almost instant association with the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA, Basque Homeland and Liberty) separatist group and violent conflict. The Basque Contention: Ethnicity, Politics, Violence attempts to undo this simplistic correlation and, for the first time, provide a definitive history of the wider political issues at the heart of the Basque Country. Drawing on three decades of research on Basque nationalism, Ludger Mees weaves together the various historical and contemporary strands of this contention: from the late medieval kingdoms of Spain and France and the first articulations of a Basque ethno-particularism, to the dissolution of ETA in 2018, and all manner of dictatorships, conflict, peace, civil war, political intrigue, hope and failure in-between. For anyone who has ever wanted to gain an insight into the Basque Country beyond the headlines of ETA and grasp the complexity of its relationship with Spain, France and indeed itself, this volume provides a detailed, yet digestible, basis for such an understanding.

Reclaiming Basque
Reclaiming Basque

Author: Jacqueline Urla

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2012-03-31

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0874178800

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The Basque language, Euskara, is one of Europe’s most ancient tongues and a vital part of today’s lively Basque culture. Reclaiming Basque examines the ideology, methods, and discourse of the Basque-language revitalization movement over the course of the past century and the way this effort has unfolded alongside the simultaneous Basque nationalist struggle for autonomy. Jacqueline Urla employs extensive long-term fieldwork, interviews, and close examination of a vast range of documents in several media to uncover the strategies that have been used to preserve and revive Euskara and the various controversies that have arisen among Basque-language advocates.

The Transformation of National Identity in the Basque Country of France, 1789-2006
The Transformation of National Identity in the Basque Country of France, 1789-2006

Author: Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga

Publisher: Center for Basque Studies UV of Nevada, Reno

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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"This work traces the meaning of identity in the Basque Country of France between the late eighteenth century and the present, including French state-building efforts in promoting a French national identity, attempts to encourage French and Basque sentiment, and the emergence of Basque nationalism with its emphasis on a Basque national identity"--Provided by publisher.

After Conversion
After Conversion

Author: Mercedes García-Arenal

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-09-07

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 9004324321

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This book examines the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia, where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth, and in this way it explores the fraught relationship between origins and faith. It treats also of the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and the production of knowledge, taking into account how integrating new converts from Judaism and Islam stimulated Christian scholars to confront the converts’ sacred texts and created a distinctive peninsular hermeneutics. The book thus assesses the importance of the “Converso problem” in issues such as religious dissidence, dissimulation, and doubt and skepticism while establishing the process by which religious dissidence came to be categorized as heresy and was identified with converts from Judaism and Islam even when Lutheranism was often in the background.

Inventing the modern region
Inventing the modern region

Author: Talitha Ilacqua

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 152616924X

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This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite its origins in pre-modern customs, this stereotypical identity was invented as part of France’s process of nation-building. The abolition of privileges in 1789 prompted a new interest in local culture as the defining feature of provincial France, shaping the transition from the pre-‘modern’ province to the ‘modern’ region. The relationship between the region and the nation, however, was difficult. Regional culture favoured the integration of the French Basque provinces into the French nation-state but also challenged the authority of the central state. As a result, Basque region-building reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the unitary model of French nationhood, in the nineteenth century as well as today.

Koldo Mitxelena
Koldo Mitxelena

Author: Luis Michelena

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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"This work brings together a number of texts by Koldo Mitxelena concerning the Basque language--a non-Indo-European language of unknown origins--and its history and literature. Includes text of his unification proposal that made "unified Basque" possible"--Provided by publisher.

Small Dictionaries and Curiosity
Small Dictionaries and Curiosity

Author: John P. Considine

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0198785011

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Small Dictionaries and Curiosity tells a story which has not been told before, that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. These wordlists were collected by people who were curious about the unrecorded or little-known languages they heard around them. Between them, they document more than 40 language varieties, from a Basque-Icelandic pidgin of the North Atlantic to the Kalmyk language of the lower Volga. The book gives an account of about 90 of these dictionaries and wordlists, some of them single-page jottings and some of them full-sized printed books, paying attention to their content and their physical form alike. It explores the kinds of curiosity and imagination by which their makers were moved: the lover of all languages hearing new voices in an inn; the speaker of a dying language recording his linguistic memories; the patriot deploying his lexicographical findings in the service of an emerging nation. It offers an encounter with the diverse voices of the entirety of post-medieval Europe, turning away from the people of the courts and universities whose language was documented in big dictionaries to listen to people who did not speak the languages of power: the people of remote places and dying communities; the illiterate poor, settled or homeless; migrants from the edges of Europe and beyond.

Diachronic Applications in Hispanic Linguistics
Diachronic Applications in Hispanic Linguistics

Author: Eva Núñez Méndez

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-05-11

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 144389317X

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This volume presents specific topics in diachronic Hispanic linguistics. These topics include: lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance, Arabisms, lexical variation in early modern Spain, the origins of the confusion of b with v, Andalusian Spanish in the Americas, the expansion of seseo and yeísmo, processes of koineization, syntactic change in scribal documentation from the Middle Ages, and the semantic changes of the verbs ser, estar and haber. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the Spanish lexicon, phonetics, morphosyntax, dialectology and semantics with the input of ten prominent scholars. It focuses not only on relevant issues in the evolution of Spanish but also answers pertinent questions in the field such as: Why do we have Latin lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance and not in other Romance languages? What kind of social factors drove Arabic lexical borrowings? How did the advent of printing affect the standardization of the lexicon and orthography? What are the main theories to explain the confusion between b and v? How relevant was the role of the Andalusian dialect in the general historical evolution of Spanish in the Americas? What were the main social and demographic influences operating in the development of Spanish during the colonial period? How accurately did scribal practices represent the speech of the Middle Ages? How did ser (ESSERE), estar (STARE) and haber (HABERE) develop differently in Romance languages?

Basque Nationalism and Political Violence
Basque Nationalism and Political Violence

Author: Cameron Watson

Publisher: Center for Basque Studies Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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This text examines the relationship between ideas and action through a historical account of how images of violence and warfare pervaded the discourse of Basque nationalism. Watson argues that a culture of political violence emerged within the Basque nationalist movement that eventually resulted in the 1959 creation of ETA.

The Basques of Lapurdi, Zuberoa, and Lower Navarre
The Basques of Lapurdi, Zuberoa, and Lower Navarre

Author: Philippe Veyrin

Publisher: Center for Basque Studies Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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"Classic book on the Basques of Iparralde (French Basque Country) originally published in 1942, treating Basque history and culture in the region"--Provided by publisher.