Manuel Reventós Bordoy: iniciador de la història dels moviments socials

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  • Albert Balcells i González

Abstract

Manuel Reventós Bordoy, originator of the history of social movements. Manuel Reventós i Bordoy (Barcelona 1888-1942) was a lawyer, economist, historian and politician. He started the academic historiography of the social movements in Catalonia with his book entitled «Assaig sobre alguns episodis dels moviments socials a Barcelona en el segle xix» [Essay on some episodes of the social movements in Barcelona in the 19th century], published in 1925. He formed part of a group of humanities and social science researchers who were trained by the Catalan University Studies between 1904 and 1907. He was one of the founders of the Acció Catalana political party in 1922. He worked as a lecturer in various public institutions before joining the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1933. With the provisional government of the Second Spanish Republic, he became general director of trade and customs policy for the Ministry of the Economy in 1931. This work studies his career as a historian and lecturer.

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2012-02-22

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Balcells i González, A. (2012). Manuel Reventós Bordoy: iniciador de la història dels moviments socials. Butlletí De La Societat Catalana d’Estudis Històrics, (22), 185–199. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/BSCEH/article/view/73429.001

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