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03225aam a2200409 i 4500 001 52E244E0C38A11E7B100357297128E48 003 SILO 005 20171107010627 008 161104s2017 maub b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016050810 020 $a 0674045513 020 $a 9780674045514 035 $a (OCoLC)959648811 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d OBE $d OCLCO $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s------ $a n------ $a s------ 050 00 $a DP52 F47 2017 100 1 $a Feros, Antonio, $e author. 245 10 $a Speaking of Spain : $b the evolution of race and nation in the Hispanic world / $c Antonio Feros. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 367 pages : $b maps ; $c 24 cm 520 $a Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century. A royal marriage united Castile and Aragon, its two largest kingdoms. The last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula fell to Spanish Catholic armies. And conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few in this period of flourishing Spanish power could define "Spain" concretely, or say with any confidence who were Spaniards and who were not. Speaking of Spain offers an analysis of the cultural and political forces that transformed Spain's diverse peoples and polities into a unified nation. Antonio Feros traces evolving ideas of Spanish nationhood and Spanishness in the discourses of educated elites, who debated whether the union of Spain's kingdoms created a single fatherland (patria) or whether Spain remained a dynastic monarchy comprised of separate nations. If a unified Spain was emerging, was it a pluralistic nation, or did "Spain" represent the imposition of the dominant Castilian culture over the rest? The presence of large communities of individuals with Muslim and Jewish ancestors and the colonization of the New World brought issues of race to the fore as well. A nascent civic concept of Spanish identity clashed with a racialist understanding that Spaniards were necessarily of pure blood and "white," unlike converted Jews and Muslims, Amerindians and Africans. Gradually Spaniards settled the most intractable of these disputes. By the time the liberal Constitution of CaÌdiz (1812) was ratified, consensus held that almost all people born in Spain's territories, whatever their ethnicity, were Spanish.-- $c Provided by publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Spains -- Spaniards -- The others within -- The others without -- A new Spain, a new Spaniard -- Race and empire -- From empire to nation. 650 0 $a National characteristics, Spanish. 650 0 $a Nationalism $z Spain $x History. 650 0 $a Cultural pluralism $z Spain $x History. 650 0 $a Racism $z Spain $x History. 610 10 $a Spain. $t ConstitucioÌn (1812) 651 0 $a Spain $x History. $z America $x History. 941 $a 4 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092842.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707013024.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214014639.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191119044737.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=52E244E0C38A11E7B100357297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search