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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Susana Truchuelo García. Gipuzkoa y el poder real en la Alta Edad Moderna. (Ikerlanak/Gipuzkoako Artxibo Orokorra=Estudios/Archivo General de Gipuzkoa, number 7.) Donostia-San Sebastián: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa. 2004. Pp. 714.

In 1696, the Castilian King Charles II authorized the printing of a compilation of the charters (fueros), privileges, customs, laws, and exemptions of the Province of Guipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa). For many people in the province, this collection established a "constitution" that defined who they were as citizens within the domains of the Crown of Castile and the global Hispanic monarchy. Guipuzkoa forms part of the Basque region of modern Spain. In the nineteenth century, when Spanish Liberals attempted to create a new country of "Spain" on the basis of a written constitution applied homogeneously throughout its territory, many in Guipuzkoa and other provinces constituted earlier on the basis of their charters and customs felt that their rights were being destroyed. The first of three nineteenth-century civil wars broke out. Although in a different context, the conflict over the special character of some of Spain's regions also contributed to the civil war of 1936–1939, which destroyed the Second Republic, and the drafters of the Spanish constitution of 1978 sought to craft a framework that would permit substantial regional autonomy for the Basque region and Catalunya. Beyond this familiar Spanish case, the theme of integrating regions of distinct heritage into larger countries retains its importance because the problem surfaces in the modern histories of so many places around the world (for example, Indonesia and Sri Lanka).

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