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10%OFFRebecca A. Earle - The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930 - 9780822340843 - V9780822340843
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The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930

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Description for The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930 Paperback. The Return of the Native offers a look at the role of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the Incas in the imagination of Spanish American elites in the first century after independence. Num Pages: 376 pages, 25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the Incas within the sense of identity—both personal and national—expressed by Spanish American elites in the first century after independence, a time of intense focus on nation-building.

Starting with the anti-Spanish wars of independence in the early nineteenth century, Earle ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
511g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822340843
SKU
V9780822340843
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Ref
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About Rebecca A. Earle
Rebecca Earle is a Reader in History at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Spain and the Independence of Colombia and the editor of Rumours of War: Civil Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Latin America and Epistolary Selves: Letters and Letter Writers, 1600–1945.

Reviews for The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930
“Historians interested in nationalism and myth-making will find this book remarkable in its regional scope and in the details of its explanations. This is an excellent book that illuminates how pre-conquest Indians came to symbolize the national pasts from the Rio Brava to Tierra del Fuego.” - Bridget M. Chesterson, Canadian Journal of History “[T]he achievements of this book are ... Read more

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