Modern History of Andorra - Autonomy in the Pyrenean Borderlands

This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled between France and Spain.

List of contents

1. Andorra, or the Art of Not Being Governed 2. Utopian and Dystopian Visions 3. The Andorra Question, 1866-1913 4. King Boris and the Andorran 'Revolution' of 1933 5. War in Spain and Europe, 1936-45: Dangerous Borderlands 6. Postwar Transformations

About the author

Martyn Lyons is Emeritus Professor of History and European Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe (2013) and Books: A Living History (2011), among other works on revolutionary and Napoleonic France and on the history of reading and writing practices. He previously published The Pyrenees in the Modern Era (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Martyn Lyons, Lyons Martyn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032992273
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3299227-3
• No. of pages: 100
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, Colonialism & imperialism, Second World War, Colonialism and imperialism, Modern warfare, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Europe / Spain