Examines the origins and development of "The Black Legend" in England--the denigration of the Spanish people in literature and public discourse that began in th
This book traces and analyses the relationship between Britain and Spain in its various forms since 1489. So often viewed as antagonistic rivals in history, the
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 countr
Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book bui