Speaking of Spain - The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World

Informationen zum Autor Antonio Feros is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century: royal marriage united its two largest kingdoms, the last Muslim emirate fell to Catholic armies, and conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few people could define ¿Spanishness¿ concretely. Antonio Feros traces Spain¿s evolving ideas of nationhood and ethnicity. Zusammenfassung Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century: royal marriage united its two largest kingdoms, the last Muslim emirate fell to Catholic armies, and conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few people could define “Spanishness” concretely. Antonio Feros traces Spain’s evolving ideas of nationhood and ethnicity.

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Feros, Feros Antonio
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2017
• EAN: 9780674045514
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04551-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Latin America, European History, Spain, Nationalism, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Latin America / General, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Europe / Spain