Creole Zones
Benedict Anderson, 7 November 1991
The First Americans: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State, 1492-1867
by D.A. Brading.
Cambridge, 761 pp., £55, March 1991,9780521391306 Show More
by D.A. Brading.
Cambridge, 761 pp., £55, March 1991,
“... was generally understood as a world-historical event, which, following on the heels of Bartolomeu Diaz’s rounding of the Cape of Good Hope, opened an Age of Discovery during which the whole planet became known for the first time to a single, powerful civilisation. Read as a triumph of science and reason over what Washington Irving, in his biography of the ... ”
