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Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Antonio Feros. Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World., The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 5, December 2018, Pages 1642–1643, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhy298
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In Speaking of Spain, Antonio Feros seeks to understand the concepts of nation and race in the history of the Iberian world. He does so by opening up the geographical space and chronology usually employed to study them. Instead of focusing solely on the peninsula, where the development of the idea of the nation is usually explored, he incorporates Spanish America into his book. Approaching the subject from the standpoint of race instead of looking only at the Jewish and Morisco questions, he links those peninsular experiences with life in the Americas, where the presence of Indians, African-descended people, and the many mixtures they engendered complicated matters. He also follows a long temporal sweep, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, to see how the concepts varied through time. This perspective makes Speaking of Spain an innovative addition to the scholarship on race and nation, which has tended to study either Europe or America and during a specific, shorter, period.
