Imagining 'America' in late Nineteenth Century Spain

Paperback Engels 2018 9781349674954
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This book examines the processes of production, circulation and reception of images of America in late nineteenth century Spain. When late nineteenth century Spaniards looked at the United States, they, like Tocqueville, ‘saw more than America’.  What did they see? Between the ‘glorious’ liberal revolution of 1868 and the run-up to the 1898 war with the US that would end Spain’s New World empire, Spanish liberal and democratic reformers imagined the USA as a place where they could preview the ‘modern way of life’, as a political and social model (or anti-model) to emulate, appropriate or reject, and above all as a 100 year experiment of republicanism, democracy and liberty in practice. Through their writings and discussions of the USA, these Spaniards debated and constructed their own modernity and imagined the place of their nation in the modern world.

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ISBN13:9781349674954
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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<p>1. Introduction: Imagining ‘America’, imagining ‘Spain’. - 2. A model republic? The United States, the constitutional question and political practice in Spain. - 3. Abolition, emancipation and war: the United States in Spanish political culture and the abolition of slavery in Cuba. - 4. ‘Liberty’ or ‘license’? Images of women in the United States and the ‘woman question’ in Spain. - 5. Patents and profit: The image of the USA as the world’s pioneer in technology, engineering, communications and urban planning. - 6. Race, religion, progress and decline: imagining difference between the United States and Spain &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

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