History awaits us there, objective in its facts and subjective in its narrators. The problem is when these two prisms come into clear conflict, when subjectivity has another intention that does not fit in the light of the facts. Nationalisms feed on lies told 100 times and related in new books with post-truths incapable of erasing the true ink of History.
Sometimes, without sinning as a nationalist, but as a patriot, it's time to get the colors out of those who label your country based on that post-truth 100 times repeated ...
Summary: No other country like Spain has a history so rich in its images or so abundant in concepts, myths and legends. It is the most exotic history of the West and also the most extensive and extreme in its scope, both chronological and geographical, and with the greatest differences in different times. Over the centuries, the history of Spain has been described and defined based on unusually controversial concepts: decadent barbarian kingdom, eastern conquest, multicultural paradise, divine war, Reconquest, Inquisition, first world empire, pan-European monarchy, deep decadence, black legend, insurrectionary country that claims its independence, romantic culture par excellence, convulsed and / or revolutionary society, militant anti-fascist democracy, retrograde fascist country, pioneering consensus democracy ...
Some of these descriptions are essentially false topics, but most refer to very complex historical processes or achievements that require much nuance. This book is an interpretation in the endless debate of the History of Spain, carried out following a chronological development that explains the evolution of the country and, with it, the myths, stereotypes and legends that have been built over time.
You can now buy the book In defense of Spain, by the historian and Hispanicist Stanley G Payne, here: