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" The wreck of Catalonia : "
Alan Ryder.
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BL
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1016461
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b770831
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| Main Entry
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Ryder, A. F. C., (Alan Frederick Charles)
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The wreck of Catalonia : : civil war in the fifteenth century /\ Alan Ryder.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press,, 2007.
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viii, 286 pages :: maps ;; 22 cm
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0199207364
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: 9780199207367
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-277) and index.
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| Contents
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Machine derived contents note: Part I. The Coming Storm -- 1. A Fine, Well-Ordered Country 3 -- 2. Strains in the Fabric 9 -- 3. 'A Widowed Land' 17 -- 4. A Clamorous Peasantry 30 -- 5. Turmoil in Barcelona: Busca and Biga 40 -- 6. A Peasantry Expectant 51 -- 7. Busca in Triumph and Disillusion 55 -- 8. The Violence of an Urban and Rural Aristocracy 61 -- 9. Catalonia Defiant 72 -- 10. Juan II, a Monarch Beset 80 -- Part Ii. War, Civil And Foreign -- 11. The Drawing of Swords 109 -- 12. Catalonia at Bay: Enter Castile 124 -- 13. Diplomacy, or War by Other Means 138 -- 14. The Portuguese Saviour 151 -- 15. In Extremis, France 175 -- 16. The Castilian Marriage 192 -- 17. A Rebellion in Ruins 210 -- 18. The Lost Lands 226 -- Part Iii. Fernando The Catholic -- 19. The Monarch Triumphant 253 -- Bibliography 270.
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"This is the story of the disaster which befell Catalonia in the fifteenth century. It was a society already destablised by rural and urban conflict. There was unrest among a peasantry resentful of outdated burdens; merchants and artisans were struggling to wrest control of the towns from entrenched oligarchies, and the aristocracy devoted itself to endless feuding. Catalonia was driven into civil war by the intransigency of its oligarchies defending the status quo against an alien monarch resolved to bend them to his will." "How that blind, aged ruler overcame the patriotic fervour whipped up by his adversaries in ten years of fighting is a major theme of the book. The material devastation inflicted on Catalonia is also discussed, together with the long-lasting psychological humiliation brought about by its incorporation in the new Spanish state of Fernando and Isabel. For centuries Catalans have been struggling to undo that outcome."--BOOK JACKET.
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Catalonia (Spain), History.
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Katalonien
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Spain, Catalonia.
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Spanien, Bürgerkrieg (1462-1474)
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946.702
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DP302.C65R93 2007
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