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No Country for Travellers?
British Visitors to Spain and Portugal, 1760–1820
A reexamination of British engagement with Iberia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Using extensive archival and printed sources left by contemporary travelers, No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Not only is it the first book to address the trend of travelers to the Iberian Peninsula during this time, revealing the extent of British interest in Islamic Spain before the Romantic era, but it also brings to light the role of non-combatant travelers to Iberia during the Peninsular War. Beyond uncovering a previously overlooked dimension of the Peninsular War, this history contends with stereotypes of Iberia that were embedded in early modern confessional and civilizational hierarchies.
Using extensive archival and printed sources left by contemporary travelers, No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Not only is it the first book to address the trend of travelers to the Iberian Peninsula during this time, revealing the extent of British interest in Islamic Spain before the Romantic era, but it also brings to light the role of non-combatant travelers to Iberia during the Peninsular War. Beyond uncovering a previously overlooked dimension of the Peninsular War, this history contends with stereotypes of Iberia that were embedded in early modern confessional and civilizational hierarchies.
376 pages | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2025
History: British and Irish History, European History
Sociology: Social History
Reviews
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Maps
1 Anglo-Iberian relations and the British view of Spain and Portugal
2 Travelling in Spain and Portugal
3 Itineraries and destinations
4 Religion, women and bullfights
5 The British and Spain in the 1770s: Lord Grantham’s circle
6 Iberia writes back: transnational exchange and international competition, 1779–1808
7 Civilian travel and the Peninsular War
8 Engaging with Spain’s Islamic past
9 Conclusion
Appendix: British and Irish Travellers to Portugal and Spain, c. 1760-1820
References
Index
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Maps
1 Anglo-Iberian relations and the British view of Spain and Portugal
2 Travelling in Spain and Portugal
3 Itineraries and destinations
4 Religion, women and bullfights
5 The British and Spain in the 1770s: Lord Grantham’s circle
6 Iberia writes back: transnational exchange and international competition, 1779–1808
7 Civilian travel and the Peninsular War
8 Engaging with Spain’s Islamic past
9 Conclusion
Appendix: British and Irish Travellers to Portugal and Spain, c. 1760-1820
References
Index