Teacher and studies director of the important École Des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Jordi Canal is one of the greatest contemporary historians and many of his works – both as editor and author - are reference books. “Los éxodos políticos en España, siglos XV-XX”(2007), “Una historia política del carlismo, 1876-1939”(2006), and with Gilles Pécout y Maurizio Ridolfi, “Sociétés rurales du XXe siecle” (2004). He’s been devoted for over 15 years to the Carlist War and is one of the greatest specialists in this subject.