Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World

First printed within the early Seventies, Tree of Hate is Philip Powell’s exploration of “the Black Legend”–the well-liked fantasy that colonial Spain and her navy and spiritual brokers had been brutal and unrelenting of their conquest of the Americas.

“Powell seeks not merely to hint the origins of what he calls Hispanophobia however to research its affect on American training, textbooks, faith, and particularly overseas coverage. . . . The proof simply demonstrates that English-speaking students and diplomats communicate with a biased tongue. . . . Too many critics of Spain, to make use of Powell’s central theme, have merely erected a ‘Tree of Hate’ out of ignorance or to justify their very own prejudices and actions. . . . Powell’s ebook deserves cautious studying.”–Journal of American Historical past