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Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America

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Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America - Herzog, Tamar
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In this book Tamar Herzog explores the emergence of a specifically Spanish concept of community in both Spain and Spanish America in the eighteenth century. Callenging the assumption that communities were the natural result of common factors such as language or religion, or that they were artificially imagined, Herzog reexamines early modern categories of belonging. She argues that the distinction between those who were Spaniards and those who were foreigners came about as local communitites distinguished between immigrants ...

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Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America 2011, Yale University Press, New haven

ISBN-13: 9780300178319

Trade paperback

Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America 2003, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300092530

Hardcover