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Magali M. Carrera is Chancellor Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She is the author of Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings.
List of Illustrations ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction: Research and Theoretical Perspectives 11. Making the Invisible Visible 192. Locating New Spain: Spanish Mappings 393. Touring Mexico: A Journey to the Land of the Aztecs 634. Imagining the Nation and Forging the State: Mexican Nationalist Imagery-1810-1860 1095. Finding Mexico: The García Cubas Projects-1850-1880 1446. Traveling from New Spain to Mexico-1880-1911 1847. Performing the Nation 232Notes 245Bibliography 277Index 317