{"product_id":"toronto-iberic-javier-irigoyen-garcia-9781442647275","title":"The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Spanish Arcadia\u003c\/em\u003e analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, paintings, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-Garc? argues that the figure of the shepherd takes on extraordinary importance in the reshaping of early modern Spanish identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Spanish Arcadia\u003c\/em\u003e contextualizes pastoral romances within a broader framework and assesses how they inform other cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-Garc? provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Javier Irigoyen-Garcia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442647272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442647275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Javier Irigoyen-Garcia","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44123660747007,"sku":"9781442647275","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f4ce0b87-4166-454b-8034-42dbc6c8522a.jpg?v=1687432127","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/toronto-iberic-javier-irigoyen-garcia-9781442647275","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}