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A Missionary Nation - Race, Religion, and Spain's Age of Liberal Imperialism, 1841-1881 (Hardcover)
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A Missionary Nation - Race, Religion, and Spain's Age of Liberal Imperialism, 1841-1881 (Hardcover)
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A Missionary Nation focuses on Spain's crusade to resurrect its
empire, beginning with the so-called War of Africa. Fought in
Morocco between 1859 and 1860, the campaign involved more than
forty-five thousand troops and led to a long-lasting Spanish
engagement in North Africa. With popular support, the government
backed French invasions of Indochina and Mexico, and many veteran
soldiers from the African war were reenlisted in the brutal and
protracted conflict following the reannexation of the Dominican
Republic in 1861. In addition, expeditions to West Africa built a
colonial presence in and around the island of Fernando Po. Few
works in English have examined the impact of these
nineteenth-century imperial ventures on Spanish identity, notions
of race, and culture. Agents of empire-from journalists and
diplomats to soldiers, spies, and clerics-took up the mantle of the
"civilizing mission" and pushed back against those who resisted
militarized occupations. In turn, a gendered, racialized rhetoric
became a linchpin of Spain's growing involvement in North Africa
and the Caribbean in the 1850s and 1860s. A Missionary Nation
interrogates the legacy of Hispanic identities from multiple axes,
as former colonies were annexed and others were occupied, tying
together strands of European, Mediterranean, and Atlantic histories
in the second age of global imperialism. It challenges the
prevailing notion that secular ideologies alone informed imperial
narratives in Europe. Liberal Spain attempted to reconstruct its
great empire of old, but the entangled issues of nationalism, race,
and religion frustrated its efforts.
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