"Carlos Fuentes once observed that to be a Spanish American intellectual was to fulfill the roles, by default, of "a tribune, a member of parliament, a labor leader, a journalist, a redeemer of his society." Such statements reflect the view that the region's intellectuals have often acted as substitutes for the structures of a civil society. An alternative view casts Spanish American intellectuals in a far more reactionary role. Here, it ..."
Republics of Knowledge Nations of the Future in Latin America by NicolaMiller 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17675-8, ISBN: 0-691-17675-2
"Here, Nicola Miller offers new insights into the process of nation-making through an account of nineteenth-century Latin America, where, she argues, the identity of nascent republics was molded through previously underappreciated means: the ..."
"This collection is the first concerted attempt to explore the significance of classical legacies for Latin American history – from the uses of antiquarian learning in colonial institutions to the currents of Romantic Hellenism which inspired liberators and nation-builders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Discusses how the model of Roman imperialism, challenges to Aristotle’s theories of geography and natural slavery, and Cice ..."
"Roland Barthes's declared the death of the author in 1968. Though Barthes was later to refine his categorical assertion, the declaration became, arguably, the most famous slogan for the fast-growing field of "theory". In 1969, Foucault published a piece that lends its title to this collection of essays. Foucault called for a time when authorship, and along with it the limitations on meaning that the author-functions bring, would no long ..."
Cambridge Russian Paperbacks Ser. Soviet Relations with Latin America, 1959-1987 1 by NicolaMiller Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 1989 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-35193-5, ISBN: 0-521-35193-6
"Hungary, and Nicaragua, 207 Ibanez, Carlos, 32 Illia, Arturo, 153 India, 33, 74
Ingenieros, Jose, 30 Institute of Latin America (Moscow), 10, 54, 195 Inter-
American Development Bank (IADB), 18 Inter-American ... Juscelino, 21, 172
Kudachkin, Mikhail, 189 Kudriatsev, Sergei, 69, 142 Laborde, Hernan, 44
Lacerna, Fernando, 39 Lacroze, David, 162, ... and Nicaragua, 215 League of
Nations, 38 Lechuga, Carlos, 89 Leguia, General Augusto, ..."
"Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or championed as a promise of earthly paradise, Ame ..."
"Modernity has been a key issue for Latin Americans and Latin Americanists for decades. Did Latin America come early or late to modernity? Was modernity imposed from outside the region, or has it been reinvented from within? Is modernity monolithic or multiple? The literature on the subject is rich, but--like Latin American modernity itself is often said to be--it is also fragmented, supplying contradictory answers to all these cruci ..."
Life after Baby Loss A Guide to Pregnancy and Infant Loss and Subsequent Pregnancy in New Zealand by NicolaMiller-Clendon Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Random House New Zealand ISBN-13: 978-1-877298-11-0, ISBN: 1-877298-11-5
"As a practising midwife and a mother who has lost four babies at various stages of pregnancy, including a stillbirth, Nicola Miller-Clendon is well qualified to write this book."
"This book was first published in 1989. The Soviet presence and purposes in Latin America are a matter of great controversy, yet no serious study was hitherto combined with a regional perspective (concentrating on the nature and regional impact of Soviet activity on the ground) and diplomatic analysis, examining the strategic and ideological factors that influence Soviet foreign policy. Nicola Miller's lucid and accessible survey of Sovi ..."
Studies of the Americas Ser. Reinventing Modernity in Latin America : Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 1900-1930 by NicolaMiller 280 Pages, Published 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-61010-1, ISBN: 0-230-61010-2
"The leader of the Picaros is equally bloodthirsty, however, rejecting Tintin's offer
to help in exchange for a promise to enact a revolution without violence with the
rejoinder: “A revolution without executions? ... When the Picaros finally triumph,
aided by Tintin and the Professor (respectively the incorruptible and the inventive
—both civilizing Europeans), they force General Tapioca at gunpoint to declare,
in a speech that “we s ..."
Reinventing Modernity in Latin America(1st Edition) Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 1900-1930 (Studies of the Americas) by NicolaMiller Hardcover, 292 Pages, Published 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-60387-5, ISBN: 0-230-60387-4
"This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model. "
Critical Studies in Latin American and Iberian Culture In the Shadow of the State : Intellectuals and the Quest for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Spanish America by NicolaMiller Hardcover, 342 Pages, Published 1999 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-738-1, ISBN: 1-85984-738-2
"Intellectuals and the Quest for National Identity in Twentieth-century Spanish
America Nicola Miller. did not in practice prevent the use of history for political
purposes, although it was often used as a shield for ... Cristian Gazmuri has
identified the main proponents of the theory of decadentismo as Luis Galdames (
1881-1941), Alberto Edwards (1874-1932) and Francisco Encina (1874-1965).
112 These writers, none of whom was a pro ..."
"33. “Machado julgava necessário que o escritor brasileiro, sem deixar de ser
brasileiro, estivesse consciente de que sua obra pertencia a uma tradição
universal: a literature”. Sá Rego (1989: 5). In this context, it is important to recall
José Guilherme Merquior's pioneering essay of 1972, which has been translated
into English: Merquior, 1975. 34. John Gledson, “Introduction,” in Schwarz (2001:
ix). 35. Assis, “To the Reader,” (19 ..."
"In 1968, Roland Barthes declared the death of the Author and the birth of the Reader. This volume has brought together an international group of authors to respond to the persistent and politically-charged question, 'What is an author?'The structuralist onslaught on agency has thrown into question the humanistic certainties of biography and literary authority. Intellectual developments in psychoanalysis and literary theory have meanwhil ..."
America Imagined(1st Edition) Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America by Axel Körner, Axel Kã Rner, NicolaMiller Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-53688-4, ISBN: 1-137-53688-8
"Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or championed as a promise of earthly paradise, Ame ..."
"The collection is richly illustrated with artwork, photography, collage and mixed media. The book is a heterodox compendium of ‘beasts of waste’, playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on various kinds of animal."