Jonathan Emmesedi<p>🧵 1/3</p><p>This afternoon I enjoyed browsing through the printed edition of a recent TLS. One is so much more likely to happen upon the unexpected, and I was not disappointed today. </p><p>For example, Notre Dame historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto takes the Yale Latin Americanist Greg Grandin to task in an uncompromising review of "America, América: A New History of the New World":</p><p>>>I opened the book expecting instruction and entertainment. I closed it in despair. How can such a shoddy piece, so self-indulgent, so partisan, so ignorant, so poorly written and so carelessly checked, appear over the name of a well-qualified professor and the imprint of a respected publisher? <<</p><p> Fernández-Armesto is particularly critical of what he sees as Grandin's recycling of the "black legend" of Spanish colonialism. He concludes his review </p><p>>>To "American identity of the future", wrote Walt Whitman in 1883, "Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts . It is time to realize --for it is certainly true--that there will not be found any more cruelty, tyranny, superstition, etc., in the resume of past Spanish history than in the corresponding resume of Anglo-Norman history". Some people have not realized it yet.<<</p><p><a href="https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229765/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=99da47a6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229</span><span class="invisible">765/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=99da47a6</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/TLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TLS</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GregGrandin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GregGrandin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FelipeFern%C3%A1ndezArmesto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FelipeFernándezArmesto</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LatinAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LatinAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spain</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BlackLegend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLegend</span></a></p>