Catalunya davant Portugal: les fonts d'un iberisme català

The book studies iberism in its literary and political aspects in modem Catalonia. The author insists on the importance of this ideological current in the Spanish refonnism thought. He links this fact with the way as Spanish modem state was fonned from the institutions and the language of Castile. The modern catalan iberism is relationated with the modern catalanism in the early twenty century. It had a great importance in the definitive development of local iberism the roll played by the catalan national poet Joan Maragall.