A Missionary Nation by Scott Eastman HARDBACK 9781496204165

A Missionary NationRace, Religion, and Spain's Age of Liberal Imperialism, 18411881\nAuthor(s): Scott Eastman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496204165, 978-1496204165\nSynopsis\nA Missionary Nation focuses on Spains crusade to resurrect its empire, beginning with the so-called War of Africa. Fought in Morocco between 1859 and 1860, the campaign involved more than forty-five thousand troops and led to a long-lasting Spanish engagement in North Africa. With popular support, the government backed French invasions of Indochina and Mexico, and many veteran soldiers from the African war were reenlisted in the brutal and protracted conflict following the reannexation of the Dominican Republic in 1861. In addition, expeditions to West Africa built a colonial presence in and around the island of Fernando Po.\n\n Few works in English have examined the impact of these nineteenth-century imperial vent.