Rereading the Black Legend - The Discourses of Religious Racial Difference in Renaissance Empires

Informationen zum Autor Margaret R. Greer is professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. Walter D. Mignolo is the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies and director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. Maureen Quilligan is the Florence R. Brinkley Professor of English at Duke University. Klappentext The phrase "the Black Legend" was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country. Challenging this stereotype! this book contextualizes Spain's tarnished reputation by exposing colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the Black Legend. Zusammenfassung The phrase "the Black Legend" was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country. Challenging this stereotype! this book contextualizes Spain's tarnished reputation by exposing colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the Black Legend.

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• Authors: Margaret R. Mignolo Greer, Maureen Quilligan
• Assisted by: Margaret R. Greer (Editor), Greer Margaret R. (Editor), Walter D. Mignolo (Editor), Mignolo Walter D. (Editor), Maureen Quilligan (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780226307220
• ISBN: 978-0-226-30722-0
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / World, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, CE period up to c 1500, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Colonialism and imperialism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages