Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300178319)

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.

Author: Tamar Herzog
ISBN-10: 030017831X
ISBN-13: 9780300178319
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2011
Pages: 334
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d