Defining Nations
Subtitle: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: March 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780300092530
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Immigration & emigration; Social groups & communities; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Latin America; Spain; The Americas; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Political History; Law / General; 18th century; America; Castile; Citizenship; Colonies; History
Description: "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. Challenging 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 communities distinguished between immigrants who were judged to be willing to take on the rights and duties of membership in that community and those who were not."--BOOK JACKET.