Basque Country电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

The Basque Country

Introduction

Ancient and Modern

Chapter One

The Urban-Rural Divide

Chapter Two

Anthropology and the Skull of the Basque Ancestor

A Stone-Age Language?

Not One Nationalism, but Three

The Basque Sense of Difference

Sancho: the Greatest Basque Political Figure?

Special Rights and the Ancestral Oak

The Carlist Wars: the Basque Rift Deepens

Sabino Arana: Inventor of Basque Nationalism

The Civil War: the PNV Stands - Reluctantly - with the Republic

A Nightwatchman in Navarre, a Conquistador in Bilbao

Chapter Three

Santimamiñe and Forua: Palaeolithic Paintings, Roman Smelters

Txatxaramendi: the Fishing Industry Learns to Fly

Mundaka: Surfers, Ecologists, a Left-handed Wave

Oma’s Enchanted Forest: a Threat to the Basque Nation?

Gernika: Democracy, Bombs and Paradoxes

Chapter Four

More Than a Game

Lions, Foxes and Magic Moments

Chapter Five

An Enemy in His Own Country?

Plagiarizing his Native Place

Etxalar: Witches, Pigeon Shoots and Carmen

Lesaka: River Dancers in Little Venice

Iganzi, Arantza: Healing Waters, Baserriak for BMWs

Chapter Six

From Itziar to Washington and Back

A Few Snacks in Asteasu

Chapter Seven

A City Built on Iron, Wood and Water

From Ruin to Resurrection

Washing the City’s Face, Lifting its Citizens’ Hearts

Jokes on the Path to Spectacular Success

We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet…

Re-imagining the River

Dark Heart, Dying Mines

The Passion Flower of Revolution

Seven Streets

The City of Iron Becomes the City of Titanium

Chapter Eight

Saved from Extinction: the Alboka

Chapter Nine

Truths Wrapped in a Tissue of Fictions

Putting Euskera on the Literary Map

Chapter Ten

The Real Gods of the Fiesta

A Spontaneous Chorus for the Virgin

Chapter Eleven

A Fetish for Violence, a Fashion for Revolution

The Death Squads of a Democratic State

Socializing the Suffering: a Teenage Intifada

Regarding ETA as a Higher Power

Chapter Twelve

Lekeitio: Dancing on a Casket

Getaria: the Aesthetics of an Egg

Belle Epoque: Zarautz, Biarritz, San Sebastián

Lekeitio II: Decapitating Geese

Gender Wars: Hondarribia and Irún

Chapter Thirteen

The Camino de Santiago: Piety and Pleasure

Burguete to the Ebro: Hemingway’s Hotel, a Magical Church, a Borgia’s Tomb

The Heart of Navarre: Olite, Artajona, Ujué, Gallipienzo

The Bardenas: Badlands Full of Life

Chapter Fourteen

In Search of Sanctuary

Chapter Fifteen

Symbols and Substance: Being Basque in Iparralde

Petit Bayonne: Cosy Streets, Dirty War and a Fine Museum

Biarritz and St.-Jean-de-Luz: Faded Glories, Pleasing Melancholy

Biriatou and Sara: Calvinist Catholics and the Evils of Procrastination

At the End of the Basque World: Saint Engrace, Larrau, Migrating Raptors and a Tribute of Three Cows

Afterword

End Matter

Further Reading

Glossary

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