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Text and truth: reading Latin American history*

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Francis J. Brooks
Francis J. Brooks
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Flinders University
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The Historical Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 1994, pp. 233 - 244
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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I wish to thank Eric Richards, Jeremy Cape, David Hilliard, Martin Scurrah and Craig Mudge for their useful comments.

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