Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations - Paperback

by William Garrett Acree (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

William G. Acree Jr. is Associate Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. He is author of Everyday Reading: Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Rio de la Plata, 1780-1910, winner of the 2013 LASA Southern Cone Studies Section Book Prize in the Humanities.

Juan Carlos González Espitia is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.