Nosaltres, els valencians

The fact that it represented the first solid intellectual effort in the twentieth century to construct an overview of the past and the present of Valencians from a Catalanist point of view explains its relevance and controversy back in the day.

It was because of the novelty of this new Catalanist paradigm, consisting of Catalanism made from Valencia, that the book caused a stir in the Valencian Francoist establishment and, with the advent of democracy in Spain, still remained deeply controversial for its uncompromising views.

It began losing relevance by the early 1990s,[citation needed] as the Unitat del Poble Valencià, a party which had been partially inspired by it, started shifting their doctrine from Catalanism to Valencianism-proper, still within the Catalanist tenet, though.

[citation needed] Fuster was influenced by Jaume Vicens i Vives's 1954 essay Notícia de Catalunya.

Notícia de Catalunya was to initially be titled Nosaltres els catalans, but it was renamed under Josep Pla's advice,[1] for fear of Francoist censorship.