THE HISPANIC WORLD AND AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL LIFE, 1820-1880 by Ivan Jaksic ( 9780230337497 )

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Title:

THE HISPANIC WORLD AND AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL LIFE, 1820-1880

By:

Ivan Jaksic

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

023033749X

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9780230337497

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Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

7 November, 2007

Series:

Studies of the Americas

Pages:

256

Description:

This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the Hispanic world. The author asserts that these gifted Americans focused on the Hispanic world that they might shape their own country's identity after Independence and the War of 1812.

Synopsis:

This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity.

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X, 256 p.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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