By Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
As Spain rebuilt its colonial regime in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish American revolutions, it became to heritage to justify persevered dominance. The metropolitan imaginative and prescient of heritage, even though, continually met with competition within the colonies.
The Conquest of History examines how historians, officers, and civic teams in Spain and its colonies solid nationwide histories out of the ruins and relics of the imperial past. via exploring controversies over the veracity of the Black Legend, the site of Christopher Columbus’s mortal continues to be, and the survival of indigenous cultures, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s richly documented examine exhibits how background grew to become implicated within the struggles over empire. It additionally considers how those techniques to the prior, even if meant to safeguard or to criticize colonial rule, referred to as into being new postcolonial histories of empire and of nations.
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