Meaning of Hispanosphere | Babel Free

Definitions

The totality of Hispanic culture and society (equivalent to the Anglosphere).

no-plural

Examples

“The many distinctive groups of the larger Hispanosphere are discussed under demography of Latin America, and Hispanic and Latino Americans (for the Hispanic population in the United States).”

“And the United States might discover that it really belongs to the Hispanosphere or to the new world–American civilization.”

“I will gauge here the extent to which these two editions have aided to further the late reception of Thomas’s verse in the Hispanosphere. […] Also, the French language became a global lingua franca much before English did, and that certainly has left an indelible cultural imprint in the Hispanosphere.”

“Tragically, it succeeded, leaving North America deeply divided into Anglo- and Hispanospheres with different levels of social development, despite the continent’s shared civilization, geography, and Indigenous past. […] The present volume, then, is a rare thing: a linear history of North America’s social development in both the Hispanosphere and Anglosphere viewed in toto, establishing a baseline in the continent’s prehistory before turning to the period from 1521 to 1823.”

“In the 1836 debates over whether to recognize the independence of the former American colonies, the progressive deputies argued that this progressive “Hispanosphere” would be linked by positive memories of the imperial heroes of the Conquest and by the celebration of their shared Spanish inheritance (Cortes Constituyentes 1836, 455).)”

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