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The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framework - the 'Hispanic-Anglosphere' - to open a window into the often surprising interactions of individuals, transnational networks and global communities that, it argues, made of the British Isles (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) a crucial hub for the global Hispanic world, a launching-pad and a bridge between Spanish Europe, Africa, America and Asia in the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Perhaps not unlike today, that was a time marked by social uncertainty, pandemics, the dislocation of global polities and the rise of radicalisms. The volume offers insights on many themes including trade, the arts, education, language, politics, the press, religion, biodiversity, philanthropy, anti-slavery and imperialism. Established academics and rising stars from different continents and disciplines combined original, primary research with a wide range of secondary sources to produce a rich collection of ten case-studies, 25 biographies and seven samples of interpreted material culture, all presented in an accessible style appealing to scholars, students and the general reader alike.
List of contents
Introduction: What is the Hispanic-Anglosphere? Concepts, methods and public engagement Appendix: Re-interpreting Tyntesfield with the Hispanic-Anglosphere – A testimony Part I: Case-studies 1. Spanish ‘colonies’: a term forged in the Hispanic-Anglosphere 2. British involvement in Francisco de Miranda’s Leander Expedition (1805–1807) 3. Yrisarri & Co: a Hispanic-Anglo firm in the opium trade in East Asia (1815–30) 4. Between Penury and Philanthropy: Joseph Lancaster, the State and the Birth of Primary Schooling in Chile (c.1810-1830) 5. Love, prejudice, pandemics, and global entrepreneurship: William ‘Guillermo’ Gibbs’s long route to Tyntesfield 6. Englishmen and Alpacas: William Walton, William Danson and Charles Ledger 7. Entangled Public Opinion: Thomas George Love and the British Press in the River Plate, 1807-1845 8. Pablo Montesino’s exile and the basis of the Liberal Education Project 9. The anarchist feedback loop: Spanish solidarity campaigns in London and the birth of revolutionary syndicalism, 1896-1913 10. Miguel de Unamuno’s British correspondence: a space for sharing ideas and concerns Part II: Entangled Lives: A Taster 11. Biographies 12. Material culture: prints, manuscripts, objects, images, locations Afterword: The way ahead
About the author
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and Global Hispanic History at the University of Winchester (UK) and Principal Investigator in the AHRC-funded international research project 'The Hispanic Anglosphere: transnational networks and global communities (18th - 20th centuries)' in partnership with The National Trust – Tyntesfield.
Summary
This book introduces the conceptual framework of the ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’ to open a window into the interactions between the British Isles and the global Hispanic world. It offers insights on trade, pandemics, the arts, education, language, politics, the press, religion, biodiversity, philanthropy, anti-slavery and imperialism.
