Rereading the Black Legend : the discourses of religious and racial difference in the Renaissance empires / edited by Margaret R. Greer, Walter D. Mignolo, and Maureen Quilligan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greer, Margaret Rich.

Mignolo, Walter.

Quilligan, Maureen, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Legend (Spanish history).

National characteristics, Spanish.

Imperialism--History--16th century.

Imperialism.

Spain--Civilization--1516-1700.

Spain.

Spain--Foreign public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 478 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The phrase "The Black Legend" was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas. Challenging this stereotype, Rereading the Black Legend contextualizes Spain's uniquely tarnished reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the "Black Legend." A distinguished gro

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. An Imperial Caste: Inverted Racialization in the Architecture of Ottoman Sovereignty

3. Hierarchies of Age and Gender in the Mughal Construction of Domesticity and Empire

4. Race and the Middle Ages: The Case of Spain and Its Jews

5. The Spanish Race

6. The Black Legend and Global Conspiracies: Spain, the Inquisition, and the Emerging Modern World

7. Of Books, Popes, and Huacas; or, The Dilemmas of Being Christian

8. The View of the Empire from the Altepetl: Nahua Historical and Global Imagination

9. "Race" and "Class" in the Spanish Colonies of America: A Dynamic Social Perception

10. Unfixing Race

11. Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia

12. Rereading Theodore de Bry's Black Legend

13. West of Eden: American Gold, Spanish Greed, and the Discourses of English Imperialism

14. Blackening "the Turk" in Roger Ascham's A Report of Germany (1553)

15. Nations into Persons

Afterword: What Does the Black Legend Have to Do with Race?

Notes

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-446) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611956998

9781281956996

1281956996

9780226307244

0226307247

OCLC:

476229075