The factors were much more numerous than simply the appearance in English translation of the Brevísima Relación, as is sometimes thought further, English dislike, distrust, hatred of the Spaniards have a much broader base than that furnished by Spanish actions in the conquest of the Indies. Maltby’s study is, so to speak, a laboratory piece, segregating and investigating one aspect of the Black Legend, namely, the development of anti-Spanish sentiment in England from Elizabethan through Cromwellian times. Aided by this device, the reader is well prepared to understand and assess the twenty-two selections which Gibson has chosen. Even more valuable are his concluding pages, in which he very ingeniously juxtaposes a Black Legend and a White Legend version on eight key issues-Spanish decadence, authoritarian government, political corruption, bigotry, indolence, cruelty in the American conquests, native American civilizations, and Indians in the established colony.
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His short sketch of the personalities and positions involved in the twentiethcentury revival of interest in the question is most useful, and his Bibliographical Note further contributes to this historiographical survey. Gibson’s analysis of “legend” in general and the so-called “Black Legend” in particular is closely reasoned and definitely thought-provoking.
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This is eminently true in the present instance.
The spanish black legend series#
The first of the pair herein discussed, that of Charles Gibson, is a collection of views, ranging from the sixteenth century into near contemporary times, in the now familiar pattern of the “Borzoi Books on Latin America.” It happens most frequently in that series that the individual editor’s introduction is the most valuable section of the little volume. The year 1971 saw three studies, two of which are noticed here and rumor has it that at least two more are on the way in the more or less near future.
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Is the Legend Black or White or Grey? This question as regards Spain at home and in the Americas has in the past half-century or so periodically interested scholars.