Education
He received his master's degree in philosophy and letters (section history) at the University of Barcelona in 1956 and his doctorate in history by the same university in 1970. He was a student of Jaume Vicens i Vives and Ferran Soldevila. Their main currents of investigation are economic history, 19th century Spanish history and the history of property. He has been influenced in his thought by E.P. Thompson, Pierre Vilar, Gramsci and Walter Benjamin.
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