Basque nationalism and political violence
the ideological and intellectual origins of ETA
- ISBN: 9781877802768
- Editorial: Center for Basque Studies
- Fecha de la edición: 2007
- Lugar de la edición: Nevada. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Ocasional papers series
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 25 cm
- Nº Pág.: 330
- Idiomas: Inglés
This work seeks to interrogate the relationship between ideas and action through a historical account of how images of violence and warfare pervaded the discourse of Basque nationalism -principally through the parameters of the hegemonic Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV or Basque Nationalism Party)- from its foundation in the 1890s through the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately, it argues that a culture of political violence emerged within the Basque nationalist movement that eventually resulted in the creation of ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Country and Freedom) in 1959. However, the undertone of violent struggle in substate Basque nationalism was itself a response to the aggressive statist nationalism of Spain, a country whose problematic transition to modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries engendered multiple forms of social, political, and structural violence within its own borders and beyond.
