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Tree of hate : propaganda and prejudices affecting United States relations with the Hispanic world / Philip Wayne Powell ; introduction by Robert Himmerich y Valencia.

Title
Tree of hate : propaganda and prejudices affecting United States relations with the Hispanic world / Philip Wayne Powell ; introduction by Robert Himmerich y Valencia.
Author
Powell, Philip Wayne.
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2008.

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Description
210 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
This work is an exploration of 'the Black Legend', the popular myth that colonial Spain and her military religious agents were brutal and unrelenting in their conquest of the Americas.
Subject
  • Civilization, Hispanic
  • Black Legend (Spanish history)
  • Spain > Foreign public opinion
  • Spain > Foreign relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-198) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Dimensions of the Black legend. Introducing the Hispanophobic fallacy -- Spain in America : the real and the unreal -- Growth of the legend. Roots of Hispanophobia -- The paper wars -- The arrogance of enlightenment -- Of matricide and American dogmas -- Echos of the legend. Educating America, in Chiaroscuro -- Bedevilment in foreign policy -- Perspectives and prescription.
ISBN
9780826345769 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008018671
OCLC
  • 227191609
  • SCSB-10653928
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library