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Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations
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Paperback. Includes essays that tease out the power of print and visual cultures, examine the impact of carnival, delve into religion and war, and study the complex histories of gender identities and disease. Editor(s): Acree, William G.; Espitia, Juan Carlos Gonzalez. Num Pages: 312 pages, 36 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
How did culture and identity take root as the new nations and state institutions were being fashioned across Latin America after the wars of independence? These original essays tease out the power of print and visual cultures, examine the impact of carnival, delve into religion and war, and study the complex histories of gender identities and disease.
How did culture and identity take root as the new nations and state institutions were being fashioned across Latin America after the wars of independence? These original essays tease out the power of print and visual cultures, examine the impact of carnival, delve into religion and war, and study the complex histories of gender identities and disease.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826516664
SKU
V9780826516664
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About
William G. Acree Jr. is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Reviews for Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations
"Nineteenth-Century Studies have taught us to reject an idea of nation-formation as a single, organic, and continuous process. The great achievement of this volume is to have reassembled the diversity of approaches and themes that make up the field today. This is the nineteenth century as panorama: a vast tableau with multiple clusters of action, rather than focused on a ... Read more