| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

David A. Lupher. Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America. (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2003. Pp. vi, 440. $59.50.

This monumental work by a student of Greek drama about sixteenth-century (mostly) Iberian scholars' comparisons of the ancient Romans and their victims to the Spanish conquistadores and theirs begs for superlatives. It is sprawling and sweeping, yet disciplined and consequential, elegantly written and enormously erudite, but approachable and relevant. David A. Lupher's thrust is clear. He means to portray these past scholars' often negative views about the impact of Spain on American cultures by comparing that impact to what the Roman conquest had done to Iberia's own pre-Latin culture a millennium and a half earlier. Thus Lupher's work is ultimately as much about an emerging Spanish identity in Europe as it is about the creation of America's own native and creole identities.

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