The vanguard of the Atlantic world : creating modernity, nation, and democracy in nineteenth-century Latin America

The vanguard of the Atlantic world creating modernity, nation, and democracy in nineteenth-century Latin America

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 contends...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanders, James E., 1971- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press 2014.
Subjects:
Democracy > History > 19th century.
Latin America > Politics and government > 19th century.
Latin America > History > 19th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009652831506719
Table of Contents:
  • 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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