Programmeġ0.30 Introduction by Maria Teresa Giménez Barbat MEPġ0.40 Maarten Larmuseau: Shared beliefs in genetic ancestry: the Black Legend in the Netherlands”.ġ1. Long time ago, Spain was a divided country into a series of antagonistic kingdoms that. This collaboration between humanities and sciences is another example of the fact that knowledge is the best ally against fake news. Spain and its black legend SPAIN: THE FIRST WORLD POWER. Despite its wide acceptance and use, however, it rests on premises whose. The historian Elvira Roca Barea, the philosopher Pedro Insua and the scientist Maarten Larmuseau will dissect the ins and outs of the black legend. From the humanities perspective, Roca Barea and Pedro Insua will set falsehoods aside. From the natural sciencespoint of view, Maarten Larmuseau will dismantle one of the most widespread lies about the Spanish presence in the Netherlands with a genetic study. T HE TERM BLACK LEGEND has long existed in the lexicon of Latin American history. The Spanish Empire was one of the favourite targets of these campaigns. And yet they manage to alter the real perception of that country, so that what others see is an ugly and distorted illusion. The legends and inventions generated in a given moment have the characteristic of floating around the victim as if they were satellites trapped by the force of gravity. Empires have not been fought only with armies, they have also been fought using lies and defamatory campaigns. The Black Legend is essentially a reputational phenomenon -the hoax that others spread against Spain and the absence of a Spanish strategy to deal with it. With elegant prose and verve, The Spanish Craze spans centuries and provides a captivating glimpse into distinct facets of Hispanism in monuments, buildings, and private homes the visual, performing, and cinematic arts and the literature, travel journals, and letters of its enthusiasts in the United States.Although fake news is seen to be a recent invention, the history of Spain is a living example that it has a long tradition. Spain’s political and cultural elites understood that the promotion of Spanish culture in the United States and the Western Hemisphere in general would help overcome imperial defeats while uniting Spaniards and those of Spanish descent into a singular raza whose shared characteristics and interests transcended national boundaries. He also considers later enthusiasts such as Angeleno Charles Lummis and the many writers, artists, and architects of the modern Spanish Colonial Revival in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kagan revisits early interest in Hispanism among elites such as the Boston book dealer Obadiah Rich, a specialist in the early history of the Americas, and the writers Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. However, the Black Legend retreated soon thereafter, and Spanish culture and heritage became attractive to Americans for its perceived authenticity and antimodernism.Īlthough the Spanish craze infected regions where the Spanish New World presence was most felt-California, the American Southwest, Texas, and Florida-there were also early, quite serious flare-ups of the craze in Chicago, New York, and New England. The Black Legend and its ambivalences influenced Americans throughout the nineteenth century, reaching a high pitch in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic to the New Deal.Īs Spanish power and influence waned in the Atlantic World by the eighteenth century, her rivals created the “Black Legend,” which promoted an image of Spain as a dead and lost civilization rife with innate cruelty and cultural and religious backwardness. María Luz López-Terrada Spanish National Research Council Abstract We used to think it was the job of a historian of Spanish science to combat the negative evaluations of Hispanic cultures that. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S.
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