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"Republics of Knowledge tells the story of how the circulation of knowledge shaped the formation of nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina, Peru and Chile, during the century after Iberian rule was defeated in the 1820s. Most immediately, the author has sought to provide a cross-disciplinary approach to the history of knowledge, combining the methods of global intellectual history with a new way of thinking about nations as experienced and enacted as well as how they are imagined, and in so doing offer a new interpretation of the history of independent Latin America to illustrate its wider significance in the making of the modern world. By bringing these lines of inqui...
A Stanford University Press classic.
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Following the format of Fitzroy Dearborn's highly successful International Dictionary of Historic Places and International Dictionary of University Histories, the International Dictionary of Library Histories provides basic information for each institution - location and holdings - followed by an extensive (1,000-5,000 word) essay on its history as well as a Further Reading list. In addition, the dictionary includes introductory articles on the history of various types of libraries and a library history in various regions of the world. The dictionary profiles more than 200 institutions from around the world, including the world's most important research libraries and other libraries with glo...
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
"Catálogo de la bibliografía nacional": A- ; "Lista de seudónimos y anónimos en la literatura y en la política venezolanas": no.5-7, 9-12, 19; "Documentos para la historia de la Biblioteca nacional": no.10-14, 17, 24, 28. "Lista de algunos periódicos que vieron la luz en Caracas de 1808 a 1900": no.14-17.