{"product_id":"the-true-story-of-spain-the-nation-that-built-an-empire-and-lost-control-of-its-story-9798197194381","title":"The True Story of Spain: The Nation That Built an Empire and Lost Control of Its Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J. Aranda\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Expeditions \u0026amp; Discoveries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpain did not lose its history. It lost the narrative.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor centuries, Spain has been remembered through a narrow lens: conquest, the Inquisition, violence, fanaticism, and guilt. But that version of the past leaves too much out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe True History of Spain\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the inherited story of Spanish shame and restores the parts of history that were erased, minimized, or selectively forgotten: the laws that protected the Indians, the Valladolid debates, the School of Salamanca, the viceroyalties, the universities, the cities, the cultural mixing of peoples, and the universal dimension of Hispanic civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book that asks forgiveness for Spain. Nor does it invent a perfect Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt does something more uncomfortable: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt compares. It remembers. It restores proportion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause Spain was not only sword. It was also law.\u003cbr\u003eIt was not only conquest. It was also incorporation.\u003cbr\u003eIt was not only empire. It was also conscience.\u003cbr\u003eIt was not only the past. It remains one of the great civilizations spread across the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten against the Spanish inferiority complex, cheap nostalgia, and propaganda, this essay offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the greatest historical legacies in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpain does not need to be absolved. It needs to be told in full.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891770540183,"sku":"9798197194381","price":698.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197194381.webp?v=1781184761","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-true-story-of-spain-the-nation-that-built-an-empire-and-lost-control-of-its-story-9798197194381","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}