... than revert to a facile dismissal of the concept of the nation as an imagined community, this chapter interrogates inherited and constructed categories of the nation and its narration, and the tenacity of the desire for such bounded categories, as precisely the paradox of the colonial modern condition...

... by the city’s residents. He depicts his Indian adversaries as cruel and savage, yet cannot fail to marvel at their valor and tenacity in battle. After the protracted war, Brigadier Segurola was made the first intendant of the entire district of La Paz. A play in verse staged in his honor in 1786 praised...

..., the military superiority of Spanish forces in the field, and the suffering sustained by the city’s residents. He depicts his Indian adversaries as cruel and savage, yet cannot fail to marvel at their valor and tenacity in battle. After the protracted war, Brigadier Segurola was made the first intendant...