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Title:
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From Virile to Sterile: Science, Masculinity, and Modernity in Argentina, 1776-1852.
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Series:
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Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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Price:
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\28,080
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Author:
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Novoa, Adriana
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ISBN:
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978-0-8229-4852-0
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Binding:
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Hardback
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Paperback
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Pub Date:
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202512
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Availability:
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NYP
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Publisher(Imprint):
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Univ. of Pittsburgh Pr.
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Description:
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Novoa explores this complex gendering of science, modernity, and civilization in Argentina during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and how a universal characterization of masculinity shaped the politics of the River Plate Viceroyalty and later the creation of the Argentine Republic.
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