Descript |
xxv, 252 p. ; 24 cm. |
Note |
Essays from a meeting of Latin American scholars held in the spring of 2000. |
Contents |
Introduction : beyond imagined communities / John Charles Chasteen. The historians. Forms of communication, political spaces, and cultural identities in the creation of Spanish American nations / François-Xavier Guerra -- Argentine counterpoint : rise of the nation, rise of the state / Tulio Halperín-Donghi -- Letters and salons : women reading and writing the nation / Sarah C. Chambers -- Student culture and nation-state formation / Andrew Kirkendall. The Critics. Scenes of reading : imagining nations/romancing history in Spanish America / Fernando Unzueta -- The nation in ruins : archaeology and the rise of the nation / Sara Castro-Klarén -- An amnesic nation : the erasure of indigenous pasts by Uruguayan expert knowledges / Gustavo Verdesio -- Showcases of consumption : historical panoramas and universal expositions / Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephán. |
ISBN |
9780801878534 |
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0801878535 |
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