In "Where Cultures Meet," editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border, ' Weber and Rausch regard frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures. Each essay in the volume illuminates the recipro-cal influences of the 'pioneer' culture and the 'frontier' culture, as they contend with each other and their physical environment.
The transformative power of frontiers gives them special interest for...
In "Where Cultures Meet," editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin Ameri...
