Natural spaces, utopian places : natural history and the elite project in early independent Mexico

One of the fundamental problems facing the creole elite following independence from Spain was how to construct an identity for themselves as elite citizens and leaders of a republic, rather than elite subjects of a monarch. Mexican intellectuals constituted their authority by establishing specific m...

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Main Author: Westgard, Clint
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17077