We are delighted to announce that in a year like no other, somehow, we managed to complete the research, compile all the material and Routledge has now published the first book emanating from our project: The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021).
Book Description
The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framework – the ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’ – to open a window into the often surprising interactions of individuals, transnational networks and global communities that, it argues, made of the British Isles (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) a crucial hub for the global Hispanic world, a launching-pad and a bridge between Spanish Europe, Africa, America and Asia in the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Perhaps not unlike today, that was a time marked by social uncertainty, pandemics, the dislocation of global polities and the rise of radicalisms. The volume offers insights on many themes including trade, the arts, education, language, politics, the press, religion, biodiversity, philanthropy, anti-slavery and imperialism. Established academics and rising stars from different continents and disciplines combined original, primary research with a wide range of secondary sources to produce a rich collection of ten case-studies, 25 biographies and seven samples of interpreted material culture, all presented in an accessible style appealing to scholars, students and the general reader alike.
Table of Contents
Introduction: What is the Hispanic-Anglosphere? Concepts, methods and public engagement
Appendix: Re-interpreting Tyntesfield with the Hispanic-Anglosphere – A testimony
Part I: Case-studies
1. Spanish ‘colonies’: a term forged in the Hispanic-Anglosphere
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers and José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez
2. British involvement in Francisco de Miranda’s Leander Expedition (1805–1807)
3. Yrisarri & Co: a Hispanic-Anglo firm in the opium trade in East Asia (1815–30)
4. Between Penury and Philanthropy: Joseph Lancaster, the State and the Birth of Primary Schooling in Chile (c.1810-1830)
5. Love, prejudice, pandemics, and global entrepreneurship: William ‘Guillermo’ Gibbs’s long route to Tyntesfield
6. Englishmen and Alpacas: William Walton, William Danson and Charles Ledger
7. Entangled Public Opinion: Thomas George Love and the British Press in the River Plate, 1807-1845
8. Pablo Montesino’s exile and the basis of the Liberal Education Project
9. The anarchist feedback loop: Spanish solidarity campaigns in London and the birth of revolutionary syndicalism, 1896-1913
10. Miguel de Unamuno’s British correspondence: a space for sharing ideas and concerns
Part II: Entangled Lives: A Taster
Biographies
Material culture: prints, manuscripts, objects, images, locations
Afterword: The way ahead
Index
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