THE BATTLE OVER SPANISH: Language Ideologies and Hispanic IntellectualsJosi Del Valle, Fordham University, and Luis Gabriel-StheemanA fascinating examination of how a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries discussed the concept of Spanish language and how these discussions related to the formation of national identities and Hispanic culture. Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics series.December 2001: 256 ppHb:0415252563: $95.00 #60.00PrefaceAcknowledgmentsContributorsBiographical Notes1. Nationalism, Hispanismo, and Monoglossic Culture, LuisGabriel-Stheeman and Josi del Valle2. Linguistic Anti-Academicism and Hispanic Community:Sarmiento and Unamuno, Barry Velleman3. The Ideological Construction of an Empirical Base:Selection and Elaboration in Andres Bello's Grammar:Ideological Underpinnings, Belford More4. Historical Linguistics and Cultural History: The Polemic between Rufino Josi Cuervo and Juan Valera, Josi de Valle5. Menindez Pidal, National Regeneration and the LinguisticUtopia, Josi del Valle6. "For Their Own Good": The Spanish Identity and Its GreatInquisitor, Miguel de Unamuno, Joan Ramon Resina7. A Nobelman Grabs the Broom: Ortega y Gasset's VerbalHygiene, Luis Gabriel-Stheeman8. Jose Maria Arguedas: Peruvian Spanish as SubversiveAssimilation, John C. Landreau9. "Codo con Codo": Hispanic Community and the Language Spectacle,Luis Gabriel-Stheeman and Josi del ValleWorks Cited