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, Feb. 23 at 4 p.m.
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 call 277-0818. For information about how to schedule an interview with the editors contact Amanda Sutton, UNM Press, at 277-0655 or asutton@unm.edu.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu