by Americo Castro · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484321538
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«España en su historia» is the historical essay by Américo Castro, published by Crítica in paperback (680 pages, in Spanish).
Américo Castro examines the history of Spain through the coexistence of Christians, Muslims and Jews, and reflects on how these three cultures shape the country's identity. The historical survey pays attention to culture, politics and society, from the origins to the present.
The cover shows the subtitle «Cristianos, musulmanes y judíos». Published in 2001.
For readers of history and essays interested in the formation of Spanish identity.
Américo Castro Quesada was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that Spaniards did not become the distinct group that they are today until after the Islamic conquest of Hispania of 711, an event that turned them into an Iberian caste co-existing among Moors and Jews, and that the history of Spain and Portugal was adversely affected with the success in the 11th to the 15th centuries of the "Reconquista" or Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula and with the Spanish expulsion of the Jews (1492).
