Rebecca A Earle: 1 book
The Return of the Native
Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
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...
