Víctor Balaguer, historiador i polític, i la invenció de la retòrica nacionalista catalana. Un assaig d’interpretació

• Autores: Enric Ucelay Da Cal
• Localización: Cercles: revista d'història cultural, ISSN-e 1139-0158, Nº. 19, 2016, págs. 351-393
• Idioma: catalán
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Víctor Balaguer, Historian and Politician, and the Invention of Catalan Nationalist Rhetoric: An Interpretative Essay
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  • Enric Ucelay-Da Cal presents Vìctor Balaguer as a key Romantichistorian, who established the canon of Catalan National History.Given the obsessive historicism of Catalan nationalism, this implicitly makes him a major figure in its logical construction. Ucelay-Da Cal situates Balaguer in the stream of nineteenth-century historical culture in Europe and the Americas, and presents a broad-based interpretation of Balaguer’s role as a historian by comparison to general historiografic trends and to political developments