Frontiers of Iberian and Latin American Culture and History

Analyzes the construction and deconstruction of communities and their internal and external frontiers in Iberia and Ibero-America from the early modern period to the early twentieth century by observing both historical and cultural artifacts (historical documents, novels, bibliography, etc.). Topics: the coming of nations, the making of state (or national) territory, the role assigned or taken on by immigrants, minorities and, in the American case, natives, and the persistence of areas now called borderlands or of groups now assigned to such (indeterminate) locations.