13. Though there were only a few public schools in Texas in 1870, there were escuelitas,
Anglo private schools, and religious schools that offered opportunities for education …

" In the pursuit of the modern, the armed forces served as instrument, model, and metaphor
for national progress. I examine in this book how the military experience, as representative …

While there are numerous investigations of the impact English has exerted on Spanish, the
reverse language contact scenario has received comparatively little attention. This book …

El asedio a la libertad conjuga novedosos y agudos aportes que contribuyen a examinar y
problematizar los procesos de abolición y posabolición de la esclavitud en el Cono Sur …

This essay discusses kinship relations in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (England, 1868)
and Jorge Isaacs's María (Colombia, 1867). We begin by differentiating between what we …

This chapter discusses the interplay between translation and publishing in Latin America.
Framed as print culture, the concept allows for an expanded discussion of translation as …

From the late eighteenth century through most of the nineteenth, Buenos Aires and
Montevideo were hosts to a joint theatrical circuit characterized by the regular comings and …

This dissertation examines theater in nineteenth-century Mexico City, using it as a lens to
better understand the city's history, its culture, and the development of public life. Through an …

The historiography of medicine in Costa Rica, and Latin America in general, tells the story of
a constant rivalry between traditional and modern medicine. However, more recent studies …

The aim of taste—the effort to advance revised and reformed aesthetic practices in early
19th-century Havana, Cuba—consumed the city's Economic Society of the Friends of the …