Unit information: The End of the Spanish Empire 1770-1898 in 2011/12

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Unit name The End of the Spanish Empire 1770-1898
Unit code MODLM1008
Credit points 20
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director Professor. Brown
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department School of Modern Languages
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This unit examines why Spain lost its continental American colonies by 1826, and Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines by 1898, when other European powers were expanding their imperial ambitions, not contracting them.