Nation and State in Latin America - 9781138528598

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Nation and State in Latin AmericaPolitical Language During Independence\nAuthor(s): Jose Carlos Chiaramonte\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138528598, 978-1138528598\nSynopsis\nNo one in Latin American historiography has paid more attention to questions related to the emergence of nations than Jose Carlos Chiaramonte. Reflecting on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century uses of the concept of nation in Europe and the Americas, Chiaramonte argues that historical questions related to the term \""nation\"" derive from its changing meaning in different contexts. The historian would be better advised to focus on the development of forms of state organization, and the emergence of national states, rather than the \""nation\"" as a cultural community prior to independence.\n\nNation and State in Latin America begins by examining the effects on historians of the ideological and methodological prejudice spread by contemporary na.