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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. ISSN 0022-216X
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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 |
| 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) |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/785 |
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