Unit name | The End of the Spanish Empire 1770-1898 |
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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 |
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.