A book to understand the keys to the diverse past of Spain’s history.
With a powerful narrative, far from academic language and no lack of irony, Diverse Spain not only clears up our history of clichés, but also teaches us that it is change, and not the maintenance of essences, that characterizes us.
«What I intend to do is explain that the diversity that continues to exist in 21st century Spain is neither an “invention” of peripheral nationalisms nor a “failure” of the Spanish state. “It is the result of a coexistence of political and cultural communities over centuries that lived behind each other.”
«Despite the tensions that Spain has suffered in recent decades, a majority opinion contrary to the social recognition of its diversity has never permeated. “This diversity has only become a problem when politically there has been insistence on making it a problem.”
«It is also true that, if the “history of Spain” has remained stuck in a very obsolete story, this has also been due to the fact that it has faced strong competition in the histories of Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia and other territories. In these alternative histories, the concept of a historical nation does not raise its authors as many objections and reservations as it does with Spain.
«Faced with the idea of an immutable and eternal Spain, the evidence shows that there have been many Spains that have been invoked over the centuries, and in contrast to what some irresponsible people claim, “our Spain” is not, nor can it be. be, the same as that of the ancestors.”
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