In this debut work, Scott Eastman tackles the complex issue of
nationalism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish
Atlantic empire. Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic
Atlantic challenges the idea that nationalism arose from the ashes
of confessional society. Rather, the tenets of Roman Catholicism
and the ideals of Enlightenment worked together to lay the basis
for a "mixed modernity" within the territories of the Spanish
monarchy.
Drawing on sermons, catechisms, political pamphlets, and
newspapers, Eastman demonstrates how religion and tradition cohered
within burgeoning nationalist discourses in both Spain and Mexico.
And though the inclusive notion of Spanish nationalism faded as the
revolutions in the Hispanic Atlantic world established new loyalty
to postcolonial states, the religious imagery and rhetoric that had
served to define Spanish identity survived and resurfaced
throughout the course of the long nineteenth century.
Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic
skillfully debates the prevailing view that the monolithic Catholic
Church -- as the symbol of the ancien r?gime -- subverted a secular
progression toward nationalism and modernity. Eastman deftly
contends that the common political and religious culture of the
Spanish Atlantic empire ultimately transformed its subjects into
citizens of the Hispanic Atlantic world.
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