Rereading the Black Legend : the discourses of religious and racial difference in the Renaissance empires /

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Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 478 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187073
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Other authors / contributors:Greer, Margaret Rich.
Mignolo, Walter.
Quilligan, Maureen, 1944-
ISBN:9780226307244
0226307247
1281956996
9781281956996
9780226307213
0226307212
9780226307220
0226307220
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-446) and index.
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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 group of contributors here examine early moder.
Other form:Print version: Rereading the Black Legend. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007 9780226307213 0226307212