Josep Fontana

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Josep Fontana was born in Barcelona, in 1931. He is arguably the most prestigious living historian in Spain and is respected from all sides of the political spectrum.[citation needed]

[edit] Education

He received his master's degree in philosophy and letters (section history) at the University of Barcelona in 1956 and his doctorate in history by the same university in 1970. He was a student of Jaume Vicens i Vives and Ferrán Soldevilla. Their main currents of investigation are economic history, 19th century Spanish history and the history of property. He has been influenced in his thought by E.P. Thompson, Pierre Vilar, Gramsci and Walter Benjamin.

[edit] Career

The Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute of History, the interdisciplinary Ph.D. history institute in the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona was originally directed and founded by Dr. Fontana, in which he continues to teach classes of Introduction to History and 20th century Spanish history. He has taught economic, the interplay between history, law and economics and contemporary history in the University of Barcelona, the University of Valencia and in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Dr. Fontana has been an active contributor to scholarly history publications since 1970, among them, l'Avenç (1976). The Introduction to History course taught during the first cycle of the humanities track of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra is based on Dr. Josep Fontana Lazaro's book Introduction to the Study of History.

He is a member of the editorial board of Sin Permiso

[edit] List of Published titles

  • The bankruptcy of the absolute monarchy (1814-1820) (1971, Ariel, 1987 and Critica, 2002)
  • The crisis of the Old Regime (Critica, 1992)
  • History: social project and analysis the past (Critical, 1993)
  • History after the aim of history (Critica, 1992)
  • Europe before the mirror (Critical, 1994 and 2000)
  • To teach history with a civil war of by means (Critica, 1999)
  • Història dels homes (Critical, 2000) Castilian version in the history of the men (Critica, 2001)
  • Introducció to l'estudi of història (Critica, 1999) version in Castilian Introduction to the study of history (Critica, 1999)
  • Aturar temps (Critica, 2005)
  • Of in the middle of the time (Critica, 2006)
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