by Americo Castro · Genérico · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472917866
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«Sobre el nombre y el quién de los españoles» is the historical essay by Américo Castro, in paperback edition (284 pages, in Spanish).
Posthumous essay in which Américo Castro traces the origin of the word that names the inhabitants of Spain. For him, that philological discussion hides the debate on the Spanish being; hence he turns linguistic and historical analysis into a plea for knowledge of the language as a path to the salvation of Spain.
Published in 1985 within the Biblioteca de la Historia collection, edited under the care of Rafael Lapesa.
For readers interested in the history of Spain, the analysis of language, and the thought of Américo Castro.
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).
