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

Authors

  • Lina del Castillo University of Texas—Austin

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.

Published

2016-02-06

How to Cite

del Castillo, L. (2016). The Contentiousness of Contingent Boundaries: Iberian Territorial Claims Making in South America and on the Peninsula. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 13(2), 342–346. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1515

Issue

Section

Reviews: Identities, Histories and Nations