El hispanismo en viaje: William H. Prescott y México

Abstract

"This essay studies the beginning of U.S. Hispanism and its relation to Latin America in the work by Harvard historian William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). It demonstrates that Prescott defined his object of study mainly based on a corpus of Spanish colonial sources. As a counter face, this paper examines the reception that Prescott’s book had in Mexico by historian José Fernando Ramírez, a contemporary to Prescott and his work, although in the ideological opposition caused by the political discrepancies that arose in the times of the Mexican American war (1846-1848)."