España contra su Leyenda Negra

Did the Inquisition persecute people for daring to dream? Did the Duke of Alba eat children? Did Philip II kill his son? Was there genocide in America? Did the Spanish steal the gold? Did they destroy indigenous languages? Is there anything to celebrate on October 12? Viceroyalties or colonies? Spanish backwardness? Decay? Racism? There is no interest in hiding that the history of Spain - like all national histories - has its dark chapters where atrocities, betrayals, crimes, corruption, massacres abound... But black history is one thing and the Black Legend is quite another. . Javier Rubio Donzé makes an exhaustive review of all those clichés that also worry some compatriots so much. But this is not another book about the Black Legend, since the author goes further, addressing tangential and equally interesting topics: reconquest, Hispanism, Hispanic reunification, nationalism, indigenism, Anglophobia, iconoclasm, pink legend... And a conclusion: Spain is not a historical anomaly.