William Garrett Acree

About The Author

William Garrett Acree Jr. is an associate professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Everyday Reading: Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Río de la Plata, 1780-1910.

Series by the Author

Books by William Garrett Acree

Staging Frontiers

The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay

By William Garrett Acree
Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers. But when the stories jumped from the page to the circus stage and beyond, their cultural, economic, and political influence revolutionized popular culture and daily life...
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