Revering Spain’s Colonial Past and Colonial Propaganda in the Prologue to Volume II of Antonio Ponz’s 'Viaje fuera de España' by Ciara O’Hagan

“…It analyses the overt colonial propaganda contained in Ponz’s prologue, which depicts Spanish imperialism as paternalistic, righteous, and benevolent, especially in comparison to the rapacious commercial imperialism of France, Britain, and Holland, and examines how the prologue in its vigorous endorsement of Spanish colonial rule conceals and misrepresents the reality of the Spanish empire in the late eighteenth century.…”
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