The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 18101930

"An ambitious and important contribution to Latin American cultural and intellectual history,The Return of the Nativeis unique in its broad, comparative focus on nationalism in Spanish America and the uses of the Amerindian past. Moreover, it is refreshing in its attention to nineteenth-century historiography and the relation between that historiography and the process of state-building."-Raymond B. Craib, author ofCartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive LandscapesRebecca A. Earle is the author of 'The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 18101930', published 2007 under ISBN 9780822340638 and ISBN 0822340631.