{"product_id":"imagining-spain-henry-kamen-9780300191110","title":"Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA leading historian explores the myths that define Spain's view of its own past\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen, is a unique analysis of the myths that Spaniards have held, and continue to hold, about themselves and about their collective past. Kamen discusses how perceptions of key aspects of early modern Spain, such as the monarchy, the empire, and the Inquisition, were influenced by ideologies that continue to play a role in the formation of contemporary Spanish attitudes.\u003cp\u003eAnxious to create a national identity, influential politicians and historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries sought the roots of that identity--an allegedly powerful, united, and Catholic nation--in a fictitious image of what Spain was during the sixteenth century. Kamen holds up this imagined Spain to historical light and also examines the persistent obsession with the notion of national decline. Analyzing the historical basis of attempts to create a convincing nationalist ideology, Kamen speaks to issues that remain at the heart of Spanish politics and public controversy today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Kamen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300191111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300191110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d","brand":"Henry Kamen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946405069055,"sku":"9780300191110","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0169547c-9f01-4d45-a9b3-77915aa91560.jpg?v=1681512959","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagining-spain-henry-kamen-9780300191110","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}