Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend

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 two countries are here compared and contrasted in order to shed light on their international connection and how this has evolved over time. Mark Lawrence reflects on the similarities of their composite monarchies, their roles as successive projectors of European global power, and the common fondness for peculiarly patriotic expressions of Christianity through the ages. At the same time, Lawrence is alert to recognising other ways in which Britain and Spain have seemed worlds apart in their respective corners of the European continent. He examines how British Protestants excoriated Spain in a ''Black Legend'', while Catholic propagandists dismissed rising English power as the work of pirates and heretics during the early modern period. In a series of chronological chapters rich with a diverse range of sources, considers the cultural exchanges which flourished amidst the growth of travel and new ideas in the 18th century, the surprising alliances of the 19th century and the shared international causes of the 20th. Whereas Spaniards feared or admired Britain for its successful political and fiscal system, the book convincingly argues, Britons romanticised Iberia for its supposed failures. It ultimately concludes that British campaigns in the 1700s and 1800s established a Romantic Spain in memoir culture which the 20th century gradually dissolved in the ideological cauldron of the 1930s and the advent of mass tourism.>

Préface
A political, cultural and military study of the encounters between Britain and Spain since the Golden Ages of the 16th century.

Auteur
Mark Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of several books, including Spain's First Carlist War, 1833-40 (2014)and The Spanish Civil Wars (2017, Bloomsbury Academic), which was translated into Spanish as well as being named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.

Contenu
Introduction 1. Anglo-Spanish Relations between the Habsburg Alliances and the Black Legend, 1489-1714 2. Eighteenth-Century Campaign and Travel Narratives 3. Fighting for the Liberty of Spain: The Peninsular War and its Aftermath 4. Fighting for the Right Kind of Spain: The Carlist War and its Aftermath 5. Britain and the Origins, Course and Atermath of the Spanish Civil War 6. Britain and Spain during the Time of Franco, Tourism, and Transition to Democracy Conclusion Bibliography Index