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Spanish is spoken as a first language by almost 400 million people in approximately 60 countries, and has been the subject of numerous political processes and debates since it began to spread globally from Iberia in the thirteenth century. A Political History of Spanish brings together a team of experts to analyze the metalinguistic origins of Spanish and evaluate it as a discursively constructed artefact; that is to say, as a language which contains traces of the society in which it is produced, and of the discursive traditions that are often involved and invoked in its creation. This is a comprehensive and provocative new work which takes a fresh look at Spanish from specific political and historical perspectives, combining the traditional chronological organization of linguistic history and spatial categories such as Iberia, Latin America and the US, whilst simultaneously identifying the limits of these organizational principles.

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Part I. Theoretical Underpinnings: 1. Language, politics and history: an introductory essay Jose del Valle
Part II. The Making of Spanish: Iberian Perspectives: 2. Introduction Alberto Medina, Henrique Monteagudo and Jose del Valle
3. The prehistory of written Spanish and the thirteenth-century nationalist zeitgeist Roger Wright
4. Language, nation and empire in early modern Iberia Miguel Martinez
5. The seventeenth-century debate over the origins of Spanish: links of language ideology to the morisco question Kathryn Woolard
6. The institutionalization of language in eighteenth-century Spain Alberto Medina
7. The officialization of Spanish in mid-nineteenth-century Spain: the Academy's authority Laura Villa
8. Spanish and other languages of Spain in the Second Republic Henrique Monteagudo
Part III. The Making of Spanish: Latin American and Transatlantic Perspectives: 9. Introduction Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux and Jose del Valle
10. Language, religion and unification in early colonial Peru Paul Firbas
11. Grammar and the state in the Southern Cone in the nineteenth century Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux
12. The politics of lexicography in the Mexican Academy in the late nineteenth century Barbara Cifuentes
13. Language in the Dominican Republic: between Hispanism and Panamericanism Juan Valdez
14. Language diversity and national unity in the history of Uruguay Graciela Barrios
15. Language debates and the institutionalization of philology in Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century Guillermo Toscano y Garcia
16. Linguistic emancipation and the academies of the Spanish language in the twentieth century: the 1951 turning point Jose del Valle
Part IV. The Making of Spanish: US Perspectives: 17. Introduction Jose del Valle and Ofelia Garcia
18. Language, church and state in territorial Arizona Elise M. DuBord
19. The politics of Spanish and English in territorial New Mexico Arturo Fernandez Gibert
20. Public health and the politics of language in early twentieth-century Texas Glenn Martinez
21. Categorizing Latinos in the history of the US Census: the official racialization of Spanish Jennifer Leeman
Part V. The Making of Spanish Beyond Spain and the Americas: 22. Introduction Mauro Fernandez and Jose del Valle
23. The status of Judeo-Spanish in the Ottoman Empire Yvette Burki
24. Language and the Hispanization of Equatorial Guinea Susana Castillo Rodriguez
25. The representation of Spanish in the Philippine Islands Mauro Fernandez.

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