Antonio Cañellas, researcher of group "Historia de España. Siglo XX" of the University of Navarra, has coordinated the book América y la Hispanidad. Historia de un fenómeno cultural, published by the Astrolabio collection of the publishing house Eunsa. The edition is the result of several programs of study and the lecture series held at the University of Navarra on the occasion of the Bicentenary of the American independence last year.

The work is structured in nine chapters in whose essay have collaborated several professors from Latin American and Spanish universities, such as Luis Suárez (from the Royal Academy of History), Víctor Zorrilla, Mª Idoya Zorroza, Eduardo Herrera, Pedro Carlos González Cuevas, Xavier Reyes, Jesús Tanco, Antonio César Moreno and Antonio Cañellas himself. According to this researcher, "it was a necessary initiative to explore, from an interdisciplinary point of view, the characteristics of a phenomenon as complex and rich as that of Hispanity".

The programs of study collected, in the opinion of Antonio Cañellas, makes it more interesting and attractive, due to a much more systematic treatment of the issue, within a broad chronological framework ranging from the finding of the Continent in 1492 to recent dates.

In this way, the phenomenon is analyzed from a historical perspective, but also from a philosophical and legal perspective, in the succession of the different periods: "The fundamental motivation of this work has been to enter into the knowledge of the Hispanic culture of America, centered on the countries of Latin America. A term that is devoid of any sovereignist charge, contrary to the one that can be attributed when we refer to Spanish America".

Antonio Cañellas stresses that the concept 'Hispanoamerica' fits 'better than Latin America to the living reality of these nations: "Beyond considerations of ideological order -which there were at the time- it seems that the best way to designate this cultural nexus and its reciprocal contributions on both sides of the Atlantic, expressed in multiple ways, is with the qualifier of Hispanidad".