Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History

by David J. Weber

Book Overview

In Where Cultures Meet, editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border, ' Weber and Rausch regard frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures. Each essay in the volume illuminates the recipro-cal influences of the 'pioneer' culture and the 'frontier'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842024786
• ISBN13: 9780842024785
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"