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A Modest Proposal for a Moratorium on Grand Generalizations: Some Thoughts on the Black Legend

1971/02/01 by Lewis Hanke · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Cuban History and Society

paper · pdf · doi:10.1215/00182168-51.1.112

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Abstract

)Black Legend illustrates how almost inexhaustibly the colonial period provides challenging controversies that lead us to re-examine basic views on the history of Spain in America.' Though this is not the place to discuss all the questions he raised, the time may have arrived for writers on the Spanish Conquest to declare a moratorium on the striking off of generalizations and judgments and to enter the archives for further research. The purpose of this note is to indicate why a moratorium is needed. Let us begin with one of the more obvious simplicities. Keen analyzes the development of Charles Gibson's thought on

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