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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807673303321

Autore

Baracco Luciano

Titolo

Nicaragua [[electronic resource] ] : the imagining of a nation : from nineteenth-century liberals to twentieth-century Sandinistas / / Luciano Baracco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2005

ISBN

1-281-39553-6

9786611395537

0-87586-394-9

0-87586-393-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

972.85/04

Soggetti

Nationalism - Nicaragua - History

Nicaragua Politics and government 20th century

Nicaragua Politics and government 1838-1909

Atlantic Coast (Nicaragua) Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Nations and Nationalism in Theoretical Perspective; Chapter 2. From Independence to Client State; Chapter 3. The Sandinista National Liberation Front and the Construction of a Revolutionary Subject; Chapter 4. Revolutionary Nation-Building: Imagining the Sandinista Nation Through History and Literacy; Chapter 5. Indians, Creoles, and Mestizos: The Atlantic Coast and Visions of the Nicaraguan Nation; Chapter 6. From Acquiescence to Ethnic Militancy: Costeño Responses to Sandinista Anti-Imperialist Nationalism; Chapter 7. Conclusion

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Nicaragua: The Imagining of a Nation is geared to students and academics of nationalism studies, history, and Latin American studies. Analyzing Nicaragua's postcolonial history, the author studies the Sandinista Revolution in the context of Nicaragua's on