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

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 478 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 940.2/1
• Soggetto topico: Black Legend (Spanish history); National characteristics, Spanish; Imperialism - History - 16th century
• Soggetto geografico: Spain Civilization 1516-1700; Spain Foreign public opinion
• Altri autori: GreerMargaret Rich MignoloWalter QuilliganMaureen <1944->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-446) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Rereading the Black Legend
• ISBN: 1-281-95699-6; 0-226-30724-7; 9786611956998
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811772003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II