Editorial Unimagdalena

Description in English: This book focuses on the role of cultural activity developed by some Latin American characters who resided in Spain between 1880 and 1936. Through different analytical approaches, it is addressed the trajectories of diplomats of different rank, regardless of the exercise of their functions of representation, they worked in the Spanish cultural life. The selection also includes connoted intellectuals who exercised a kind of informal diplomacy with significant repercussions. The chronological arc in which the Spanish estates of one and the other run covers a period that, with some exceptions, begins after the establishment of bilateral relations between the American countries and the former colonial metropolis and comes to an end on the eve of the Spanish Civil War.Regardless of time, the compendium covers a wide geographical spectrum that includes diplomats and intellectuals from Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. This contributes to filling a historiographical void in the field of relations sustained between these countries and Spain from the end of the 19th century to the first decades of the 20th.""The different contributions are based on a wide repertoire of sources, largely coming from the National Archives and Foreign Affairs of Spain, Mexico, Uruguay, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, and Chile. Additionally, other public and private repositories in Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, Huelva, and Barranquilla have been utilized. The printed press used in all cases comes from various Spanish, Latin American, and United States newspaper archives.