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‘Padres de la Patria’ and the ancestral past: commemorations of independence in nineteenth-century Spanish America

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Earle, Rebecca (2002) ‘Padres de la Patria’ and the ancestral past: commemorations of independence in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol.34 (No.4). pp. 775-805.

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Abstract

This article examines the civic festivals held in nineteenth-century Spanish America to commemorate independence from Spain. Through such festivals political leaders hoped, in Hobsbawm's words, ‘to inculcate certain values and norms of behaviour by repetition, which automatically implies continuity with the past’. But when did the ‘past’ begin? If in nineteenth-century France the French Revolution was the time of history, in Spanish America there was no consensus on when history began. The debates about national origins embedded within the nineteenth-century civic festival not only suggest how political elites viewed their Patrias but also shed light on the position of indigenous culture (usually separated hygienically from indigenous peoples themselves) within the developing national histories of post-independence Spanish America.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1201 Latin America (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History > Comparative American Studies
Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Colonies -- America, Spain -- Colonies -- History, Latin America -- History -- 1830-1898, Latin America -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Latin American Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0022-216X
Official Date: November 2002
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November 2002Published
Volume: Vol.34
Number: No.4
Number of Pages: 31
Page Range: pp. 775-805
Status: Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
Funder: Leverhulme Trust (LT), Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain) (AHRC)

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