Heroes & hero cults in Latin America
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Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : heroes and their cults in modern Latin America / Ben Fallaw and Samuel Brunk
- Simón Bolívar : man and myth / John Chasteen
- Remembering and forgetting Agustín Gamarra : the life and legacy of the Cuzco caudillo / Charles F. Walker
- Antonio López de Santa Anna's search for personalized nationalism / Shannon Baker
- Presidential ritual in Porfirian Mexico : curtsying in the shadow of dictators / Víctor M. Macías-González
- The eyes of Emiliano Zapata / Samuel Brunk
- Felipe Carrillo Puerto of revolutionary-era Yucatán, Mexico : popular leader, Caesar, or martyr? / Ben Fallaw
- Augusto Sandino of Nicaragua : the hero never dies / Richard Grossman
- Frida Kahlo : heroism of private life / Nancy Deffebach
- Haya de la Torre and APRA / David Nugent
- Evita Perón : beauty, resonance, and heroism / Linda B. Hall.