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October 29, 2024
This chapter proposes that a corpus of Latin American novels published during the nineteenth century which focus on issues of finance, external debt, and gold parity, also articulated the limits of both collective and individual sovereignty. In these novel ...
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January 1, 2022
This chapter focuses on sugar as a commodity underlining and overdetermining social, political, and aesthetic changes in the Caribbean from the 1870s to the 1930s. These global and regional changes included the consolidation of the gold-standard regime and ...
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2006
Venezuelan poet and intellectual Andrés Bello wrote what are considered the two foundaional poems of Spanish America’s republican period. In this reading, the author argues that the interpetation of these poems should consider the material circumstances in ...
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