The Spaniards : an introduction to their history / Americo Castro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castro, Américo, 1885-1972, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--Civilization.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (647 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1971]

Summary:

This ambitious book by Américo Castro is not simply a history of the Spanish people or culture. It is an attempt to create an entirely new understanding of Spanish society. The Spaniards examines how the social position, religious affiliation, and beliefs of Christians, Moors, and Jews, together with their feelings of superiority or inferiority, determined the development of Spanish identity and culture. Castro follows how españoles began to form a nation beginning in the thirteenth century and became wholly Spanish in the sixteenth century in a different way and under different circumstances than other peoples of Western Europe. The original material of this book (chapters II through XII) was translated by Willard F. King, and the newly added material (preface, chapters I, XIII, and XIV, and appendix) was translated by Selma Margaretten. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I. CONCERNING THIS HISTORY AND ITS HISTORICAL METHOD

II. THE PROBLEM: IN SEARCH OF THE REALITY THAT IS NOT A FABLE

III. THE SPANIARDS AS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE INTERMINGLING OF THREE CASTES OF BELIEVERS

IV. THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS

V. A HISTORY OF INNER CONFIDENCE AND INSECURITY

VI. THE NON-SPANISH STRUCTURE OF ROMAN AND VISIGOTHIC HISPANIA

VII. AL-ANDALUS AS A CONSTITUTIVE CIRCUMSTANCE OF SPANISH LIFE

VIII. ISLAMIC TRADITION AND SPANISH LIFE

IX. IN SEARCH OF A BETTER SOCIAL ORDER

X. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE CHRISTIAN AND EUROPEAN REACTION: ST. JAMES OF GALICIA

XI. SANTIAGO, AN INTERNATIONAL ATTRACTION

XII. THE ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE OF THREE CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS

XIII. THE HISTORICAL AGES CONDITIONED BY THE PECULIAR PROBLEM OF THE SPANISH POPULATION

XIV. PROBLEMS AND PERIODS IN SPANISH HISTORY

ADDENDUM

APPENDIX: OBSERVATIONS ON BULLFIGHTS AND AUTOS DA Ff

INDEX

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-37857-1

OCLC:

1443083022