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Nineteenth-Century Spanish America - A Cultural History (Paperback)
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Nineteenth-Century Spanish America - A Cultural History (Paperback)
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Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History provides a
panoramic and accessible introduction to the era in which Latin
America took its first steps into the Modern Age. Including
colorful characters like circus clowns, prostitutes, bullfighters,
street puppeteers, and bestselling authors, this book maps vivid
and often surprising combinations of the new and the old, the high
and the low, and the political and the cultural. Christopher Conway
shows that beneath the diversity of the New World there was a
deeper structure of shared patterns of cultural creation and
meaning. Whether it be the ways that people of refinement from
different countries used the same rules of etiquette, or how
commoners shared their stories through the same types of songs,
Conway creates a multidisciplinary framework for understanding the
culture of an entire hemisphere. The book opens with key themes
that will help students and scholars understand the century, such
as the civilization and barbarism binary, urbanism, the divide
between conservatives and liberals, and transculturation. In the
chapters that follow, Conway weaves transnational trends together
with brief case studies and compelling snapshots that help us
understand the period. How much did books and photographs cost in
the nineteenth century? What was the dominant style in painting?
What kinds of ballroom dancing were popular? Richly illustrated
with striking photographs and lithographs, this is a book that
invites the reader to rediscover a past age that is not quite past,
still resonating into the present.
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