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On 20 May, Josep Valldeperas Conesa of the Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya asked why there wasn't more activity on this list.  Here is
my contribution:

    I need help.  A high percentage of the population of Idaho is of
Basque ancestry.  I teach a course entitled "Constituting Modern
Spain, 1808-1982," which deals with attempts to create a country on
the basis of a written constitution.  Various Spanish attempts are
compared to those of other peoples around the world.  One of the
issues with which the course deals is that of regional autonomy/
regional nationalism.  Not surprisingly, my students have lots of
questions about Basque nationalist movements and about autonomy
statutes in Spanish history.

    I have copies of both the Basque and Catalan autonomy statutes of
1979 in Castilian.  Does anyone know of published English
translations of these documents?  I hate to take the time to
translate them, but many of my students cannot read Castilian.

    I would also like to obtain copies of the Basque and Catalan
autonomy statutes from the 1930s.  Of the original versions, I would
need to have the Basque one in Castilian since, like Josep
Valldeperas, I cannot read Basque.  As my Castilian is considerably
more fluent than my Catalan, I would also prefer having the 1932
Catalan Statute in its Castilian version.  Finally, does anyone know
of English translations of these two 1930s statutes?

    Jill Berner of the Nevada-Reno Basque Studies Program has, very
kindly, already searched without success through the holdings there
for English translations of the Basque statutes.  If I end up
translating this material myself, copies will be deposited in Reno.

    If anyone has suggestions about other documents the students
could read to better understand the regional autonomy issue in its
Iberian context, I would love to read such postings.

In advance, I thank all who post suggestions and/or citations.
Agur, Jack Owens

J. B. Owens                       Telephone:
Department of History                (208) 236-3232 [office]
Box 8344                             (208) 233-8589 [home]
Idaho State University            e-mail address on InterNet:
Pocatello, ID 83209                  owenjack@fs.isu.edu