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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
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of History, University of St Andrews, St.Andrews, United Kingdom
Kate Ferris
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Imagining 'America' in late Nineteenth Century Spain
Authors: Kate Ferris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-35280-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35279-8Published: 23 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-67495-4Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35280-4Published: 10 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 329
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: European History, US History, Cultural History