The vanguard of the Atlantic world : creating modernity, nation, and democracy in nineteenth-century Latin America / James E. Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanders, James E., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--History--19th century.

Democracy.

Latin America--Politics and government--19th century.

Latin America.

Latin America--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 that Latin America in this period was a site of genuine political innovation and popular debate reflecting Latin Americans'' visions of modernity.

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".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822357803

0822357801

9780822376132

082237613X

OCLC:

1139358657