Scott Eastman's well-researched monograph places the Spanish-Moroccan War (1859–60) in the larger context of the imperialist mid-nineteenth-century conflicts waged by the Spanish liberal monarchy.
Eastman approaches the complexity of this period of Spanish history through several colonial archives, including the Ministerio de Ultramar's, and large repositories of newspapers, lectures, treatises, and public debates about the purported civilizational mission of the crestfallen empire that had once ruled most of the Americas and large parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Eastman's earlier monograph provided insight into several peninsular administrations’ exertions to create a transatlantic culture of patriotism and Catholic (universalist) Hispanic belonging in the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution. This second book looks at several of the military ventures and imperial designs from 1841 to 1881 by which Spanish politicians and military men tried to reconstruct Spain's global empire. Eastman places these neocolonial projects within the post-Napoleonic world order of liberal...
