Everyday reading
Subtitle: print culture and collective identity in the Río de la Plata, 1780-1910
By: William Garrett Acree Jr
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780826517890
Subjects: Book industries and trade; Intellectual life; Publishers and publishing; National characteristics, Uruguayan, in literature; Books and reading; National characteristics, Argentine, in literature; Printing; History
Other titles: Print culture and collective identity in the Río de la Plata, 1780-1910
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Words, wars, and public celebrations : the emergence of Rioplatense print culture (1780-1830); title: Words, wars, and gauchos : lassoing print culture and cattle civilization (1830-1870); title: Sowers of alphabets (1870-1910); title: Lessons for a nation (1880-1910); title: Epilogue : spreading the word and image (1880-1910).