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Contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627

February 17, 2006

Open Doors Lecture Presents Editors of Books on Spanish Colonialism

Co-editors Christopher Schmidt-Nowara and John Nieto-Phillips will present their book “ Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations, and Legends ” as part of the 2006 Open Doors Regional & Scholarly Writers Series at the University of New Mexico 's Zimmerman Library. The lecture will take place in the Willard Reading Room on Thursday, February 23 rd at 4pm.

Published by UNM Press, “ Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations, and Legends” offers a compelling examination of how historians in Spain and the Americas have come to understand and write about the Spanish colonial past and its meanings. The book brings together scholars from Spain , Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States to retrace the link between historiography and nation-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also explores how and why Spain and its colonies came to be depicted as “backward” and “marginal” to other European and U.S. “modern” regimes.

This event is co-sponsored by University Libraries' Division of Iberian & Latin American Resources & Services (DILARES), CHIPOTLE (Chicano/Hispano/Latino/Program), the Latin American & Iberian Institute, and the Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections (CSWR).

For general information on this event, please call 505-277-0818. For information about how to schedule an interview with the editors, please contact Amanda Sutton, UNM Press publicity, at (505) 277-0655 or asutton@unm.edu.

 


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