NATION AND NATIONALISM IN MEXICO THROUGH THE STORIES OF PASSENGERSAuthor:
RANERO CASTRO MAYABEL.
Year:
2004.
University:
PAÍS VASCO [
www.ehu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y DE LA COMUNICACION.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y DE LA COMUNICACION.
Summary: Of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries arrived in Mexico many travelers who drafted (by iconic and textual) descriptions of the country and its people for consumption of the metropolis. This construct is often accompanied by descriptive judgments and assessments which justified the action and direct interference in their home countries in politics, economy and ideology of the nineteenth century Mexico. It discusses these stories passenger cultural products as expressive of the processes that imperialists in the nineteenth century implemented the Western powers (Britain, France and the United States in particular) to position itself in the Americas, Africa and Asia. The Mexican case is defining characters are explored in the vast corpus textual and iconic that travelers decimonónicos created and which in turn were a reference for generations of intellectuals, artists and politicians Mexicans in the nineteenth century formed the ideas of nation and nationalism Mexican.
