New faculty book release on cultural icon, Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar:
Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon
Edited by Maureen G. Shanahan and Ana María Reyes

One of Latin America’s most famous historical figures, Simón Bolívar has become a mythic symbol for many nations, empires, and revolutions used to support wildly diverse–sometimes opposite–ideas. From colonial Cuba to Nazi-occupied France to Cold War-era Slovenia, the image of “El Libertador” has variously signified loyalty, national unity, liberation, freedom, and revolt.

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New faculty book release on cultural icon, Simón Bolívar

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