Trials of nation making : liberalism, race, and ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910 / Brooke Larson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larson, Brooke, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Andes Region--Government relations.

Indians of South America.

Andes Region--Politics and government--19th century.

Andes Region.

Andes Region--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers the first interpretive synthesis of the history of Andean peasants and the challenges of nation-making in the four republics of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia during the turbulent nineteenth century. Nowhere in Latin America were postcolonial transitions more vexed or violent than in the Andes, where communal indigenous roots grew deep and where the 'Indian problem' seemed so daunting to liberalizing states. Brooke Larson paints vivid portraits of Creole ruling élites and native peasantries engaged in ongoing political and moral battles over the rightful place of the Indian majorities in these emerging nation-states. In this story, indigenous people emerge as crucial protagonists through their prosaic struggles for land, community, and 'ethnic' identity, as well as in the upheaval of war, rebellion, and repression in rural society. This book raises broader issues about the interplay of liberalism, racism, and ethnicity in the formation of exclusionary 'republics without citizens'.

Contents:

Andean landscapes, real and imagined

Colombia : assimilation or marginalization of the Indians?

Ecuador : modernizing Indian servitude as tu.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-289) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14196-6

1-280-43757-X

0-511-61639-2

0-511-16544-7

0-511-16613-3

0-511-16418-1

0-511-31291-1

0-511-16498-X

OCLC:

171138266