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Nineteenth-Century Spanish America ─ A Cultural History

ISBN13：9780826520609
出版社：Vanderbilt Univ Pr
作者：Christopher Conway
裝訂／頁數：平裝／288頁
規格：22.9cm*15.2cm (高/寬)
出版日：2015/08/15
關鍵字： Nineteenth-Century Spanish America ─ A Cultural History、 Nineteenth、 Century、 Spanish、 America、 Cultural、 History、 Vanderbilt Univ Pr、 Christopher Conway、外文書、 General history of South America、

杜威圖書分類： General history of South America

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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.