The Spaniards: An Introduction to Their History - Hardcover

Castro, Americo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520415280 ISBN 13: 9780520415287

Publisher: University of California Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Américo Castro was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity.

From the Back Cover

"An invaluable book for historians and Hispanists alike, one in which Castro fully explains his 'rules of the game' (in the preface and chapter I) and then proceeds brilliantly to develop his main thesis concerning the reality of Spanish history."--Manuel Duran, Yale University

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520415280
• ISBN 13: 9780520415287
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 644