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Matthew Wilson's avatar

Fascinating paper! It's particularly interesting to see a non-state capacity justification for the persistence of distinct Basque and Catalonian identities in Spain vs. Occitanian identities in France.

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Regional Pasts's avatar

I found this interesting and suggestive. It is a shame there isn't a comparison with the pre-industrial cultural provinces identified by Phythian-Adams (as Day did in their paper) or more engagement with P-A's model of how cultural provinces were formed in Britain.

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DeepLeftAnalysis🔸's avatar

Absolutely fascinating example how of economic globalization and the erasure of local culture far precedes the 20th century. It's criminal how few subscribers this blog has.

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