id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-25204 Ibacache, Kathia Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 304p. Paper, $39.95 (ISBN 9780691176758). 2021-11-02 3 .pdf application/pdf 1679 72 42 In Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America, Nicola Miller, Professor of Latin American history at the University College London, offers a two-part book addressing the history of knowledge in Spanish America from independence in 1810 to 1910, when govern- ments understood the importance of access to public knowledge as a key feature of modern nations. In these cases, the public library engaged public education, while the national library would serve as a repository for national culture. cache/crl-25204.pdf txt/crl-25204.txt