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This book examines the processes of production, circulation and
reception of images of America in late nineteenth century Spain.
When late nineteenth century Spaniards looked at the United States,
they, like Tocqueville, 'saw more than America'. What did they see?
Between the 'glorious' liberal revolution of 1868 and the run-up to
the 1898 war with the US that would end Spain's New World empire,
Spanish liberal and democratic reformers imagined the USA as a
place where they could preview the 'modern way of life', as a
political and social model (or anti-model) to emulate, appropriate
or reject, and above all as a 100 year experiment of republicanism,
democracy and liberty in practice. Through their writings and
discussions of the USA, these Spaniards debated and constructed
their own modernity and imagined the place of their nation in the
modern world.
This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and
worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini's regime in Italy,
variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the
regime's incursions into everyday life. The contributions highlight
the experiences of ordinary Italians - midwives and schoolchildren,
colonists and soldiers - over the course of the Fascist era, in
settings ranging from the street to the farm, and from the kitchen
to the police station. At the same time, this volume also provides
a framework for understanding the Italian experience in relation to
other totalitarian dictatorships in twentieth-century Europe and
beyond.
This book examines the processes of production, circulation and
reception of images of America in late nineteenth century Spain.
When late nineteenth century Spaniards looked at the United States,
they, like Tocqueville, 'saw more than America'. What did they see?
Between the 'glorious' liberal revolution of 1868 and the run-up to
the 1898 war with the US that would end Spain's New World empire,
Spanish liberal and democratic reformers imagined the USA as a
place where they could preview the 'modern way of life', as a
political and social model (or anti-model) to emulate, appropriate
or reject, and above all as a 100 year experiment of republicanism,
democracy and liberty in practice. Through their writings and
discussions of the USA, these Spaniards debated and constructed
their own modernity and imagined the place of their nation in the
modern world.
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