Imperiofobia y leyenda negra

Elvira Roca rigorously tackles in this volume the question of delimiting the ideas of empire, black legend and imperial phobia. In this way we can understand what empires and the black legends that are inevitably linked to them have in common, how they are created by intellectuals linked to local powers and how the empires themselves assume them. Pride, hubris, envy, are not alien to the imperial dynamic. The author deals with imperialophobia in the cases of Rome, the United States and Russia to analyze the Spanish Empire in greater depth and with a better perspective. The reader will discover how the current story of the history of Spain and Europe is based on ideas based more on sentiments born of propaganda than on real facts. The first manifestation of Hispanophobia in Italy arose linked to the development of humanism, which gave the black legend an intellectual luster that it still enjoys. Later, Hispanophobia became the central axis of Lutheran nationalism and other centrifugal tendencies that manifested themselves in the Netherlands and England. Roca Barea investigates the causes of the persistence of Hispanophobia, which, as she has proven its conscious and deliberate use in the debt crisis, continues to be profitable for more than one country. Everyone knows that knowledge of history is the best way to understand the present and consider the future.