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- Title
The historiography of nationalism and national identity in Latin America.
- Authors
Miller, Nicola
- Abstract
This article surveys the current state of research on nationalism in Latin America, focusing on the large body of work produced from the 1990s onwards in a wide variety of disciplines (history, the social sciences and cultural studies). Covering work on both the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, it takes as a starting point the impact of Benedict Anderson's work, Imagined Communities, on Latin Americanists. It discusses the ways in which Latin Americanists have applied his ideas, and their critiques of many of his claims about Latin American nationalism. It goes on to outline major recent developments across the field, within the context of an argument that it is important for all scholars of nationalism to incorporate Latin American experiences into their debates on the history and theory of nationalism. The references have been selected to guide readers to key relevant works; regrettably, the article cannot, for reasons of space, offer a fully comprehensive bibliography.
- Subjects
LATIN America; HISTORIOGRAPHY; LATIN Americanists; NATIONALISM; ANDERSON, Benedict R. O'G. (Benedict Richard O'Gorman), 1936-2015; ETHNOLOGY; IMAGINED Communities: Reflections on the Origin &; Spread of Nationalism (Book)
- Publication
Nations & Nationalism, 2006, Vol 12, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
1354-5078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8129.2006.00237.x