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  • Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations
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  • Edited by William G. Acree Jr. and Juan Carlos González Espitia
  • 2010
  • Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
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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.

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  1. Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations
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  1. Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-8
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  1. Part I. Lasting Impressions
  1. Chapter 1. Foundational Images of the Nation in Latin America
  2. pp. 11-31
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  1. Chapter 2. Words, Wars, and Public Celebrations, The Emergence of Rioplatense Print Culture
  2. pp. 32-58
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  1. Chapter 3. Novels, Newspapers, and Nation, The Beginnings of Serial Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
  2. pp. 59-78
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  1. Chapter 4. Toikove Ñane Retã! Republican Nationalism at the Battlefield Crossings of Print and Speech in Wartime Paraguay, 1867–1868
  2. pp. 79-97
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  1. Part II. Cultures on Display
  1. Chapter 5. Forms of Historic Imagination, Visual Culture, Historiography, and the Tropes of War in Nineteenth-Century Venezuela
  2. pp. 101-132
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  1. Chapter 6. Anything Goes, Carnivalesque Transgressions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
  2. pp. 133-149
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  1. Chapter 7. Performing the Porfiriato, Federico Gamboa and the Negotiation of Power
  2. pp. 150-174
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  1. Part III. Ideologies, Revelations, and Hidden Nations
  1. Chapter 8. The Imponderable and the Permissible, Caste Wars, Culture Wars, and Porfirian Piety in the Yucat
  2. pp. 177-201
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  1. Chapter 9. Birds of a Feather, Pollos and the Nineteenth-Century Prehistory of Mexican Homosexuality
  2. pp. 202-226
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  1. Chapter 10. Unveiling the Mask of Modernity, A Critical Gendered Perspective of Amistad funesta and the Early Chronicles of Jos
  2. pp. 227-245
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  1. Chapter II. A Brief Syphilography of Nineteenth-Century Latin America
  2. pp. 246-270
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 271-273
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 275-285
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