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In August 1865, Javier Angulo Guridi arrived in Santo Domingo carrying four loads of documents from the Restoration War-crossing swollen rivers by broken canoe, over fifty leagues of trail with no inn in sight. Within a year, those archives had vanished-one of many such losses this book sets out to understand. Drawing on a wealth of published and unpublished documents and rare images, from nineteenth-century archives to modern metro maps, this book reveals that what gets erased and who gets silenced was rarely left to chance-offering a new lens for understanding how institutions of memory across Latin America have been built as much to suppress as to preserve the past.