by Americo Castro (Author), Willard F. King (Translator), Selma Margaretten (Translator)

This ambitious book by Américo Castro is not simply a history of the Spanish people or culture. It is an attempt to create an entirely new understanding of Spanish society. The Spaniards examines how the social position, religious affiliation, and beliefs of Christians, Moors, and Jews, together with their feelings of superiority or inferiority, determined the development of Spanish identity and culture. Castro follows how españoles began to form a nation beginning in the thirteenth century and became wholly Spanish in the sixteenth century in a different way and under different circumstances than other peoples of Western Europe.

Front Jacket

An invaluable book for historians and Hispanists alike, one in which Castro fully explains his 'rules of the game' (in the preface and chapter I) and then proceeds brilliantly to develop his main thesis concerning the reality of Spanish history.--Manuel Duran, Yale University

Author Biography

Américo Castro was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity.

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