Pierre Vilar (3 May 1906,
Frontignan
Frontignan (; ) is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France.
Frontignan is renowned for its AOC wine, the Muscat de Frontignan, a sweet wine made solely from the Muscat grape variety.
Geography
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– 7 August 2003,
Saint-Palais) was a French historian specialized in the history of
Catalonia
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and
Hispanism
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. He is considered one of the most authoritative 20th-century historians for the history of Spain, for both the
Ancien Régime
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and modern history. He and
Jaume Vicens Vives
Jaume Vicens Vives (6 June 1910 in Girona, Spain – 28 June 1960 in Lyon, France) was a Spanish historian, and is considered, along with Pierre Vilar, one of the top influential Catalan historians of the 20th century.
According to Eliseo ...
were among the most influential historians of Catalonia.
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''Jaume Vicens Vives: la voluntat d'ésser catalans ''
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His short 1947 essay ''Histoire de l'Espagne'' (''History of Spain''), despite being banned under Francoism
Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spa ...
, has a great success, and after the death of the Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War ...
was frequently used in progressive circles and for teaching. In 2009, it reached its 22nd edition.
Works
* 1947: Histoire de l'Espagne.
* 1959: Le déclin catalan du bas Moyen Âge. Hypothèses sur sa chronologie
* 1962: La Catalogne dans l'Espagne moderne. Recherches sur les fondements économiques des structures nationales
* 1965: Growth and development
* 1969: L’Or et la Monnaie dans l’histoire (1450–1920)
* 1975: Assaigs sobre la Catalunya del segle XVIII
* 1975: Marxist history, history in construction
* 1980: Introduction to the vocabulary of the historical analysis
* 1986: La guerre d'Espagne
* 1987–1990: Història de Catalunya
* 1995: Pensar històricament. Reflexions i records.
* 1998: History, nation and nationalism: a national question and labour movement.
Pierre Vilar Collection
The Pierre Vilar Collection of the Universitat de Girona (UdG) is the personal library of the historian, given by his family in 2006. It consists of more than 6,500 20th and 19th century books and 331 journal series, with some of the volumes signed and dedicated by its authors. The collection is located at the UdG Library. Barri Vell campus.
Cataloguing of the collection was completed in 2006 in the context of the centennial of Pierre Vilar's birth.
This collection with those of Jaume Vicens Vives
Jaume Vicens Vives (6 June 1910 in Girona, Spain – 28 June 1960 in Lyon, France) was a Spanish historian, and is considered, along with Pierre Vilar, one of the top influential Catalan historians of the 20th century.
According to Eliseo ...
, Joan Reglà, Ramon Garrabou, Jordi Nadal, Joaquim Nadal
Joaquim Nadal i Farreras (born 31 January 1948) is a Spanish politician and historian from Catalonia. He is a professor at the University of Girona and was the Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Catalan Government, the Gener ...
i Lluís Maria de Puig, confer to the UdG a great significance as center for historical research in Catalunya.
References
External links
Pierre Vilar Collection (Universitat de Girona)
French Hispanists
1906 births
2003 deaths
French male non-fiction writers
20th-century French historians
Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies
French Marxist historians
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