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Politics of temporalization : medievalism and orientalism in nineteenth-century South America /
"This book delves further into the politics of the medieval/modern divide and its attendant concepts of modernity, alternative modernities, and the premodern by investigating these historical boundary-crossing struggles in the Ibero-American context. The notion that Ibero-America was medieval o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book delves further into the politics of the medieval/modern divide and its attendant concepts of modernity, alternative modernities, and the premodern by investigating these historical boundary-crossing struggles in the Ibero-American context. The notion that Ibero-America was medieval or that the British Empire would bring modern ways of life to the Spanish American premodern backwaters was not the purview of twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholars but was already evident in early ethnographic and autoethnographic texts from the nineteenth century"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812297201 0812297202 |