Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Coyright page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Redressing the Silencing of Empire -- Imperialism and Nationalism -- The Spanish Empire's Embattled Legacies -- Imperial Legacies and National Reform -- Imperial Emotions and the Essay on National Character -- Chapter 1 -- Columbus in 1892 -- Nationalist Uses of the Imperial Past -- Freethinkers and Empire -- The Failure of the Federalist Critique -- Chapter 2 -- Addressing the Post-Imperial Condition -- Empire and casticismo -- Mourning Imperial Values -- Chapter 3 -- Theorizing Imperial Ambivalence -- Independence, Expansion, Modernity -- The Paradox of Empire and Melancholia -- Chapter 4 -- Anger and Indignation -- Nietzsche's Critical History -- The Conquest of the meseta as a Second (Imperial) Nature -- Chapter 5 -- Catalanist Mood circa 1906 -- The Subdued Emotions of Cognition and Controversy -- Imperialism and the Creation of National Pride -- Witnessing the Spanish Empire's Shame -- Conclusion -- The Vanishing of Ambivalence -- The Moral Implications of Imperial Emotions -- Works Cited -- Index.

A ground-breaking work that considers myths of the Spanish empire from the perspective of cultural responses to its demise.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.