Casassas, Jordi, 1948-2018-05-162018-05-1620172013-407Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/122416This article considers the need, when studying nationalism, to combine the analysis of the particular case with the status of the issue in the analysis of the generic nation/nationalism which brings us to the historical time when the study is being conducted. What stands out currently is the importance of the historiographic renovation spearheaded by a group of historians, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists in the first half of the 1980s. And because of his popularity, E. Hobsbawm's contribution particularly stands out. In a complementary fashion, it also advances a hypothesis on the reasons behind this historiographic renovation. The last part of the article focuses on determining the effects this renovation had on analyses of Catalanism.12 p.application/pdfengcc-by-nc-nd (c) Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2017http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/esHistoriografiaCatalanismeNacionalismeHobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012HistoriographyCatalanismNationalisminfo:eu-repo/semantics/article6742652018-05-16info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess