National identity after conquest

National identity after conquest

The forthcoming article “National identity after conquest” by Christopher Carter and Daniel W. Gingerich is summarized by the author(s) below. Throughout history, occupying powers have often tried to reshape the identity of the people in the territories they control by encouraging them to adopt the occupier’s national identity. They typically use policies that reward those who align with this new identity while discriminating against those who r…

Spanish nationalist historiography coined the ideological term of “reconquista” to refer to a very long period of time (almost eight centuries) in which the incipient Christian kingdoms of the eighth century ended up dominating the Iberian peninsula. We are not going to go now to refute the ideological term of “reconquista” that does not appear in medieval historical texts and which is used very unfortunately to refer to what was, first, a proce…