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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Spanish Farm Houses and Minor Public Buildings
Author: The Spanish Craze
Author: Richard L. KaganPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496211138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic to the New Deal. As Spanish power and influence waned in the Atlantic World by the eighteenth century, her rivals created the "Black Legend," which promoted an image of Spain as a dead and lost civilization rife with innate cruelty and cultural and religious backwardness. The Black Legend and its ambivalences influenced Americans throughout the nineteenth century, reaching a high pitch in the Spanish-American War of 1898. However, the Black Legend retreated soon thereafter, and Spanish culture and heritage became attractive to Americans for its perceived authenticity and antimodernism. Although the Spanish craze infected regions where the Spanish New World presence was most felt--California, the American Southwest, Texas, and Florida--there were also early, quite serious flare-ups of the craze in Chicago, New York, and New England. Kagan revisits early interest in Hispanism among elites such as the Boston book dealer Obadiah Rich, a specialist in the early history of the Americas, and the writers Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He also considers later enthusiasts such as Angeleno Charles Lummis and the many writers, artists, and architects of the modern Spanish Colonial Revival in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spain's political and cultural elites understood that the promotion of Spanish culture in the United States and the Western Hemisphere in general would help overcome imperial defeats while uniting Spaniards and those of Spanish descent into a singular raza whose shared characteristics and interests transcended national boundaries. With elegant prose and verve, The Spanish Craze spans centuries and provides a captivating glimpse into distinct facets of Hispanism in monuments, buildings, and private homes; the visual, performing, and cinematic arts; and the literature, travel journals, and letters of its enthusiasts in the United States.
The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
The Spanish House for America
Author: Rexford NewcombPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Books and Notes
Author: Los Angeles County Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
Architecture and Building
Author: Bulletin
Author: A.L.A. Catalog, 1926
Author: Isabella Mitchell CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
Bulletin ...
Author: Kansas State University. Engineering Experiment StationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
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