DHCommons

"Time, Routes, and Places of Nineteenth-Century Travelers" is dedicated to compiling, querying, visualizing, and interpreting the narratives by men and women who traveled to Spain from over ten countries of Europe and the Americas over the course of the “long” nineteenth century (1789-1914). We are mapping the itineraries of these travelers and developing a conceptual map of Spain as nineteenth-century travel destination, as visitors from different countries saw it.
The work entails vast data collection and querying that have already started, and it will take at least two years to be completed. Relevant data include the travelers’ names, points of origin, dates of travel, date and place of each travelogue’s first edition, purposes of travel, means of transport, itineraries, destination points in each town, their summarized opinions about these attractions, and the repeated conventional themes that accompany the descriptions of certain places (for example, the stories of Spanish bribery told while crossing the Spanish border or the references to bandits inevitable in any description of Spanish roads).