Jaksic I. - The Hispanic World And American Intellectual Life 1820 1880 - Paperback Western Swing Peter's College University Of Oxford)

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Written by a leading historian of Latin America Conquistadors and Aztecs offers a timely portrayal of the fall of Tenochtitlan and the founding of an empire that would last for centuries

Author(s): Parfit Derek (All Souls University Of Oxford)

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Jaksic I. - The Hispanic World And American Intellectual Life 1820 1880 - Paperback Western Swing Peter's College University Of Oxford)Binding: Paperback Description: This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the Hispanic world. The author asserts that these gifted Americans focused on the Hispanic world that they might shape their own country's identity after independence and the War of 1812, a crucial time for the young republic and that they found inspiration in a most unlikely place: