The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810-1930

by Rebecca Earle

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 Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the Incas within the sense of identity-both personal and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822340844
• ISBN13: 9780822340843
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 8.9"