Cover ; Half-title ; Title page ; Coyright page ; Contents ; Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Redressing the Silencing of Empire; Imperialism and Nationalism; The Spanish Empire's Embattled Legacies; Imperial Legacies and National Reform; Imperial Emotions and the Essay on National Character; Chapter 1 ; Columbus in 1892; Nationalist Uses of the Imperial Past; Freethinkers and Empire; The Failure of the Federalist Critique; Chapter 2 ; Addressing the Post-Imperial Condition; Empire and casticismo; Mourning Imperial Values; Chapter 3 ; Theorizing Imperial Ambivalence.

Independence, Expansion, ModernityThe Paradox of Empire and Melancholia; Chapter 4 ; Anger and Indignation ; Nietzsche's Critical History; The Conquest of the meseta as a Second (Imperial) Nature; Chapter 5 ; Catalanist Mood circa 1906; The Subdued Emotions of Cognition and Controversy; Imperialism and the Creation of National Pride; Witnessing the Spanish Empire's Shame; Conclusion ; The Vanishing of Ambivalence; The Moral Implications of Imperial Emotions; Works Cited; Index.

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This work reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of the theory of emotions. Its main claim is that the demise of the Spanish empire in 1898 spurred a number of contradictory emotional responses, ranging from mourning and melancholia to indignation, pride, and shame. It shows how intellectuals sought to reimagine a post-Empire Spain by drawing on myth and employing a predominantly emotional register.

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