Download or read book The Origins of Catalan Nationalism, 1770-1898 written by A. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the reasons behind the emergence of a Catalan nationalist movement from the late 1880s, one of the most important developments that took place in nineteenth-century Spain, with the 'Catalan question' thereafter never far from the centre of the Spanish political stage.