The Vanguard of the Atlantic World : Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America /

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In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world''s democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E. Sanders co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sanders, James E., 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and government.
Democracy.
HISTORY / Latin America / General
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
Democracy > History > 19th century.
Latin America.
Amerique latine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Amerique latine > Politique et gouvernement > 19e siecle.
Latin America > History > 19th century.
Latin America > Politics and government > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: American republican modernity
  • Garibaldi, the Garibaldinos, and the Guerra Grande
  • "A pueblo unfit to live among civilized nations" : conceptions of modernity after independence
  • The San Patricio Battalion
  • Eagles of American democracy: the flowering of American republican modernity
  • Francisco Bilbao and the Atlantic imagination
  • David Peña and black liberalism
  • The collapse of American republican modernity
  • Conclusion: a "gift that the New World has sent us."

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