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Part I. Theoretical underpinnings. Language, politics and history : an introductory essay / José del Valle

Part II. The making of Spanish: Iberian perspectives. Introduction to the making of Spanish : Iberian perspectives / Alberto Medina, José del Valle and Henrique Monteagudo

The prehistory of written Spanish and the thirteenth-century nationalist zeitgeist / Roger Wright

Language, nation and empire in early modern Iberia / Miguel Martínez

The seventeenth century debate over the origins of Spanish : links of language ideology to the Morisco question / Kathryn A. Woolard

The institutionalization of language in eighteenth-century Spain / Alberto Medina

The officialization of Spanish in mid-nineteenth century Spain : the Academy's authority / Laura Villa

Spanish and other languages of Spain in the Second Republic / Henrique Monteagudo

Part III. The making of Spanish: Latin American and Transatlantic perspectives. Introduction to the making of Spanish : Latin American and Transatlantic perspectives / Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux and José del Valle

Language, religion and unification in early colonial Peru / Paul Firbas

Grammar and the state in the Southern Cone in the nineteenth century / Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux

The politics of lexicography in the Mexican Academy in the late nineteenth century / Bárbara Cifuentes

Language in the Dominican Republic : between Hispanism and Panamericanism / Juan R. Valdez

Language diversity and national unity in the history of Uruguay / Graciela Barrios

Language debates and the institutionalization of philology in Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century / Guillermo Toscano y García

Linguistic emancipation and the academies of the Spanish language in the twentieth century : the 1951 turning point / José del Valle

Part IV. The making of Spanish: US perspectives. Introduction to the making of Spanish : US perspectives / José del Valle and Ofelia García

Language, church and state in territorial Arizona / Elise M. DuBord

The politics of Spanish and English in territorial New Mexico / Arturo Fernández-Gibert

Public health and the politics of Spanish in early twentieth-century Texas / Glenn A. Martinez

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. Introduction to the making of Spanish beyond Spain and the Americas / Mauro Fernández and José del Valle

The status of Judeo-Spanish in the Ottoman Empire / Yvette Bürki

Language and the hispanization of Equatorial Guinea / Susana Castillo Rodríguez

The representation of Spanish in the Philippine Islands / Mauro Fernández.

Spanish language > Political aspects > History.

Communication in politics > History.

Political science > Spanish-speaking countries.