Rereading the Black Legend : The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires.
Title:
Rereading the Black Legend : The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires.
Author:
Greer, Margaret R.
ISBN:
9780226307244
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (487 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- PART I TWO EMPIRES OF THE EAST -- 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 -- PART I I SPAIN: CONQUISTA AND RECONQUISTA -- 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 -- PART I I I DUTCH DESIGNS -- 11 Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia -- 12 Rereading Theodore de Bry's Black Legend -- PART IV BELATED ENGLAND -- 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 -- 15 Nations into Persons -- Afterword: What Does the Black Legend Have to Do with Race? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
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 modern imperialisms including the Ottomans in Eastern Europe, the Portuguese in East India, and the cases of Mughal India and China, to historicize the charge of unique Spanish brutality in encounters with indigenous peoples during the Age of Exploration. The geographic reach and linguistic breadth of this ambitious collection will make it a valuable resource for any discussion of race, national identity, and religious belief in the European Renaissance.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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