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Article: Taracena, Arturo, and Jean Piel (eds.). Identidades nacionales y Estado moderno en Centroamerica (National identities and the modern state in Central America).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- March 22, 1999
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Taracena, Arturo, and Jean Piet (eds.). Identidades nacionales y Estado moderno en Centroamerica (National identities and the modern state in Central America). San Jose: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica--Colecci6n Istmo, 1955. Pp. 281. ISBN 9977-67-275-X (pb.) n.p.
This volume consists of selected papers for a seminar on "the historical balance of the nation states in Central America," held in San Salvador, El Salvador, from Nov. 22nd to 24th, 1993). The editors note, in their "prologue" that many problems and blank pages exist in the political historiography of Central America. They see much of the problem as arising from the prevalence of an ...