The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century: An Introduction, ed. Graciela Iglesias-Rogers

Abstract

This book does exactly what it says on the tin. Its purpose is to introduce and to explore a novel conceptual construct, the ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’. This term describes the framework within which connections between the Hispanic and British ‘worlds’—metropolitan, imperial and diasporic—took shape. The book argues, in particular, that during the long nineteenth century the British Isles became ‘a crucial hub for the global Hispanic world and a bridge between Spanish Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas’ (p. 1). It suggests that the best way to make sense of the relationships which emerged is to adopt a version of the ‘entangled history’ paradigm, on the grounds that this allows scholars to press beyond the straightforward identification of transnational networks and communities, and to get at ‘the modalities and outcomes of intercultural connectedness’ (p. 5). Having made these points in the introduction, the editor then sets the contributors off running after subjects...