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A Reconsideration of Spanish Colonial Culture*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

John Tate Lanning
John Tate Lanning*
Affiliation:
Duke University
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The interpretation of Spanish colonial history has ever ranged to extremes. A political observer once remarked that on the subject of James G. Blaine men went crazy in pairs. And on the subject of Spain Spaniards have shown the same flair from Charles V to Franco. How else can we reconcile “the proud Spaniard” so fixed in popular psychology and the revealing verse of Batrina?

Hearing a. man speak, it is easy to tell where he first saw the light of day.

If he praises England, he will be an Englishman;

If he speaks evil of Prussia, he will be a Frenchman;

If he speaks evil of Spain, he is a Spaniard.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , October 1944 , pp. 166 - 178
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1944

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Footnotes

*

Paper read at the Inauguration of the Academy of American Franciscan History, Washington, D. C., April 18, 1944.

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* Paper read at the Inauguration of the Academy of American Franciscan History, Washington, D. C., April 18, 1944.