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Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America
By (Author) Nicola Miller
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th January 2021
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History of ideas
Political science and theory
Political ideologies and movements
980
Hardback
320
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America-and beyond The rise of nation-states is a hallmark of the modern age, yet we are still untangling how the phenomenon unfolded across the globe. Here, Nicola Miller offers new insights into the process of nation-making through an account of nineteenth-c
Nicola Miller is professor of Latin American history at University College London. Her books include Reinventing Modernity in Latin America: Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 19001930 and In the Shadow of the State: Intellectuals and the Quest for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Spanish America.