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Imagining 'America' in late Nineteenth Century Spain

Autor Kate Ferris
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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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349674954
ISBN-10: 1349674958
Pagini: 329
Ilustrații: XV, 329 p. 4 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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                                                                                    

Notă biografică

Kate Ferris is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of St Andrews, UK.  She has research interests in cultural productions and receptions in nineteenth and twentieth century Spain and Italy and has previously published Everyday Life in Fascist Venice (2012).

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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.

Caracteristici

Explores the ‘images’ or ideas of the United States held by the emergent liberal elite in Spain between 1868 and 1898 Shows the complex ways in which the United States was imagined before it became a hegemonic power Focuses on themes including republicanism and democracy; the abolition of slavery; race, technology, commerce, communications and the city, and women’s status, education and emancipation