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

Herzog, Tamar

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Synopsis

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 who were judged to be willing to take on the rights and duties of membership in that community and those who are not.

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About the Author

Tamar Herzog is associate professor in the department of history at the University of Chicago.

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...[This] subtle, detailed argument should provoke new thinking within many European disciplines. -- Choice

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Publisher: Yale University Press, 2003
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