The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810-1930

by Rebecca Earle

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822340844

ISBN13:9780822340843

Release Date:December 2007

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:376 Pages

Weight:1.17 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 8.9"

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