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Mexican national identity : memory, innuendo, and popular culture /

In this enlightening book, the well-known historian William Beezley contends that a Mexican national identity was forged during the nineteenth century not by a self-anointed elite but rather by a disparate mix of ordinary people and everyday events. In examining independence festivals, children'...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beezley, William H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2008.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • How El Negrito saved Mexico from the French : the popular sources of national identity
  • Tightly knotted nodes of possibility : almanacs and lotería
  • Independence celebrations and representations of the nation
  • Itinerant puppet theater and national identity
  • The plainsong of nineteenth-century national identity.