The Spanish Craze
Title | The Spanish Craze PDF eBook |
Author | Richard L. Kagan |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 641 |
Release | 2019-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1496211154 |
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic to the New Deal. As Spanish power and influence waned in the Atlantic World by the eighteenth century, her rivals created the “Black Legend,” which promoted an image of Spain as a dead and lost civilization rife with innate cruelty and cultural and religious backwardness. The Black Legend and its ambivalences influenced Americans throughout the nineteenth century, reaching a high pitch in the Spanish-American War of 1898. However, the Black Legend retreated soon thereafter, and Spanish culture and heritage became attractive to Americans for its perceived authenticity and antimodernism. Although the Spanish craze infected regions where the Spanish New World presence was most felt—California, the American Southwest, Texas, and Florida—there were also early, quite serious flare-ups of the craze in Chicago, New York, and New England. Kagan revisits early interest in Hispanism among elites such as the Boston book dealer Obadiah Rich, a specialist in the early history of the Americas, and the writers Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He also considers later enthusiasts such as Angeleno Charles Lummis and the many writers, artists, and architects of the modern Spanish Colonial Revival in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spain’s political and cultural elites understood that the promotion of Spanish culture in the United States and the Western Hemisphere in general would help overcome imperial defeats while uniting Spaniards and those of Spanish descent into a singular raza whose shared characteristics and interests transcended national boundaries. With elegant prose and verve, The Spanish Craze spans centuries and provides a captivating glimpse into distinct facets of Hispanism in monuments, buildings, and private homes; the visual, performing, and cinematic arts; and the literature, travel journals, and letters of its enthusiasts in the United States.
The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze
Title | The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze PDF eBook |
Author | Stan Berenstain |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2013-04-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0385370385 |
Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Brother and Sister’s friends have started collecting a new toy called Beary Bubbies and the cubs just have to have them! Will Brother and Sister come to realize that it’s all just a fad, or will they be stuck in a toy craze forever? This beloved story is a perfect way to teach children about not having to follow the crowd.
Clothing the Spanish Empire
Title | Clothing the Spanish Empire PDF eBook |
Author | M. Vicente |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2006-12-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230603416 |
By the 1780s in the city of Barcelona alone, more than 150 factories shipped calicoes to every major city in Spain and across the Atlantic. This book narrates the lives of families on both sides of the Atlantic who profited from the craze for calicoes, and in doing so helped the Spanish empire to flourish in the eighteenth century.
Americans in Spain
Title | Americans in Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Brandon Ruud |
Publisher | Other Distribution |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Painters |
ISBN | 9780300252965 |
A revealing exploration of Spain's significant impact on American painting in the 19th and early 20th century
The Spanish Inquisition
Title | The Spanish Inquisition PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Kamen |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0300075227 |
Thirty-five years ago, Kamen wrote a study of the Inquisition that received high praise. This present work, based on over 30 years of new research, is not simply a complete revision of the earlier book. Innovative in its presentation, point of view, information, and themes, it will revolutionize further study in the field.
George and the New Craze
Title | George and the New Craze PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Hemming |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Collectors and collecting |
ISBN | 1541542061 |
"The original picture book text for this story has been modified by the author to be an early reader."
Irreversible Damage
Title | Irreversible Damage PDF eBook |
Author | Abigail Shrier |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2020-06-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1684510465 |
NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES "Irreversible Damage . . . has caused a storm. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts." —Janice Turner, The Times of London Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively. But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.” Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility. Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves. Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters. A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.