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Sara Castro-Klaren, William Garrett Acree, Jr. Everyday Reading: Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Río de la Plata, 1780–1910., The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 3, June 2013, Page 909, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/118.3.909
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In this study of the relationship of print culture to the formation of a collective national identity in Argentina and Uruguay during the course of the long nineteenth century, William Garrett Acree, Jr. delves with great profit into the realm of primary school textbooks, domestic scenes of reading, and other informal social gatherings in which reading was shared and enjoyed. Acree offers a lively account of the many social venues in which Argentines and Uruguayans of all ages and classes read and, in so doing, established bonds of shared identity. Reading and other manifestations of print culture played an instrumental role in the production of the national subject. Rich in primary sources, this study makes excellent use of newspapers, magazines, pulp fiction, textbooks, and leaflets. Acree makes a deliberate effort to identify and dwell on the constitution of the reading publics to whom the various print formats appealed as well as the effects that these formats had on the formation of an educated citizenry.
