JOSEP FONTANA

'Josep Fontana' was born in Barcelona, in 1931. He received the master's degree in Philosophy and Letters (section History) by the University of Barcelona in 1956. Doctoró in History by the same university in 1970. He is arguably the most prestigious living-historian in Spain and is respected from all sides of the political spectrum. He was student of Jaume Vicens i Vives and Ferrán Soldevilla. Their main currents of investigation are economic History, the Spanish History of century XIX and the History of the property. He has been influenced in his thought by E.P. Thompson, Pierre Vilar, Gramsci and Walter Benjamin. The University Institute of History Jaume Vicens i Vives, the interdisciplinary Ph.D. History institute in the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona was originally directed and founded by Dr. Fontana, in which he continues to impart classes of Introduction to History and XX Century Spanish History. He has taught economic, the interplay between History, Law and Economics and contemporary History in the University of Barcelona, University of Valencia and Autonomous University of Barcelona. Dr. Fontana has been an active contributor to the scholarly History publications since 1970, among them, l'Avenç (1976). The Introduction to History course taught during the First Cycle of the Humanities track of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra is based on Dr. Josep Fontana Lazaro's book ''Introduction to the Study of History''.

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The bankruptcy of the absolute monarchy (1814-1820) (1971, Ariel, 1987 and Critical one, 2002) The crisis of the Old Regime (Critical, 1992) History: social project and analysis the past (Critical, 1993) History after the aim of history (Critical, 1992) Europe before the mirror (Critical, 1994 and 2000) To teach history with a civil war of by means (Critical, 1999) Història dels homes (Critical, 2000) Castilian version in the history of the men (Critical, 2001) Introducció to l'estudi of història (Critical, 1999) version in Castilian Introduction to the study of history (Critical, 1999) Aturar temps (Critical, 2005) Of in the middle of the time (Critical, 2006)