The Contentiousness of Contingent Boundaries: Iberian Territorial Claims Making in South America and on the Peninsula

  • Lina del Castillo University of Texas—Austin
Keywords Territories, nationalism, colonialism, Spain, Latin America
Keywords Territories, nationalism, colonialism, Spain, Latin America

Abstract

Review of Tamar Herzog. Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Author Biography

Lina del Castillo, University of Texas—Austin
Lina del Castillo is an Assitant Professor at UT Austin and received her B.A. from Cornell University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Miami. She first joined the UT community through the Big 12 Faculty Fellowship which allowed her time away from Iowa State University to conduct research and participate in the Institute for Historical Studies.
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Published
2016-02-06
Issue
Vol. 13 No. 2 (2016): Winter 2016
Section
Reviews: Identities, Histories and Nations