Salvador Sanpere i Miquel : intel·lectual, polític i historiador

Abstract

Salvador Sanpere i Miquel: intellectual, politician and historian. Salvador Sanpere i Miquel was an important intellectual, an active cultural agitator, untiring worker and politically active in the ranks of moderate republicanism. He played an important role in introducing positivist and evolutionist theories to Spain. His most significant intellectual legacy was Fin de la nación catalana [End of the Catalan nation] published in 1905, a work culminating the process of reclaiming Catalonias history, started with the Renaissance. This book represents a decisive landmark in our knowledge of the War of the Spanish Succession thanks to its extensive bibliographical range and the international documentary sources used by Sanpere, which allowed him to analyse the theme from an appropriate European perspective and through a prism that reflects the complexity of the time and the divisions and tensions at play in Catalonia.