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What did the Edwardians know about Spain, and what was that knowledge worth? This book draws on a vast store of largely unstudied primary source material to investigate Spain's place in the turn-of-the-century British popular imagination. Set against a background of unprecedented emotional, economic and industrial investment in Spain, the book traces the extraordinary transformation that took place in British knowledge about the country and its diverse regions, languages and cultures between the tercentenary of the Spanish Armada in 1888 and the outbreak of World War I twenty-six years later. This cultural and material history reveals how Anglo-Spanish connections, their history and culture were more visible, more colourfully represented, and more enthusiastically discussed in Britain's newspapers, concert halls, council meetings and schoolrooms, than ever before.
Great Britain --- Spain --- Relations --- Foreign public opinion, British --- History --- Intellectual life --- Informal colonialism --- Edwardian --- Spanish culture in Britain --- history of Spanish Studies --- British travellers in Spain --- Spanish Studies
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This book recovers the encounter with a 'multicultural' Britain by British travellers in the Tudor and Stuart periods. When William Camden, writing in the sixteenth century, set out to write the history of Britannia, he deliberately took to the roads to discover it first-hand, and those diverse cultures guided and informed his journeys. Here, John Cramsie offers original perspectives on Camden's multicultural Britain through the study of British travellers and their narratives. We meet characters such as the Tudor traveller John Leland, who intended to tell the peoples of England and Wales about themselves; chronicle how they came to settle the towns, villages, valleys, and mountaintops they called home; record the marks they left in the landscape; and celebrate the noble histories and cultures they created. Dozens - eventually hundreds - of Britons shared the same passion to meet their island neighbours and relate their experiences. The individuals studied in this book include actualas well as armchair travellers and those who blurred the boundaries between them. Their letters, diaries, journals, and histories range from the epic, poignant, and matter of fact to the exotic, preposterous, and hateful; the sources include actual and imaginative narratives and those which combined both elements. Travellers painted Britain with, in Leland's words, native colours that were rich, vibrant, and, above all, complex. Their remarkable journeys are the story of how Britons over two centuries met, interacted, and attempted (or not) to understand one another. Written with an eye to debates about immigration and ethnicity in today's Britain, the book emphasizes the long history of making and remaking the island's cultural mosaic. The encounter with Britain's native colours has beena burden of history and opportunity for millennia, not simply for our own times. JOHN CRAMSIE is Associate Professor, Department of History, Union College, NY.
Travelers' writings, British --- History and criticism. --- Camden, William, --- Influence. --- Great Britain --- Description and travel. --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- Camdenus, Guilielmus, --- M. N., --- N., M., --- Description and travel --- British History. --- British Travellers. --- Cultural Encounters. --- Ethnicity. --- Immigration. --- Multicultural Britain. --- Stuart Period. --- Travel Narratives. --- Tudor Period.
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British --- Travelers' writings, English --- Travel --- History --- History and criticism --- Africa --- Description and travel --- Travelers --- -British --- -British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- -Africa --- -Eastern Hemisphere --- -History --- -Description and travel --- English travelers' writings --- English literature --- British people --- Description and travel. --- British travellers --- 19th century --- British - Travel - Africa - History - 19th century --- Travelers' writings, English - Africa - History and criticism --- Africa - Description and travel
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