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Nicola Miller - Reading Rousseau in Latin America
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:49:48
Publish Date: 2012-02-27 18:00:00
Description: It is well known that many of the leaders of the Wars of Independence invoked Rousseau in support of their challenge to colonial authority, but how exactly were Rousseau's works read and interpreted in early nineteenth-century Latin America? In this lecture, Nicola Miller identifies variations in how Rousseau's ideas were adopted and adapted by different actors, in different parts of the region, in order to explore the problems and possibilities of explaining how and why ideas travel.
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