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., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press 2014

[s.l.] : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In 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. Drawing on archival sources in Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay, Sanders traces the circulation of political discourse and democratic practice among urban elites, rural peasants, European immigrants, slaves, and freed blacks to show how and why ideas of liberty, democracy, and universalism gained widespread purchase across the region, mobilizing political consciousness and solidarity among diverse constituencies. In doing so, Sanders reframes the locus and meaning of political and cultural modernity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction: American Republican Modernity

Chapter 1 Garibaldi, the Garibaldinos, and the Guerra Grande

Chapter 2 “A Pueblo Unfit to Live among Civilized Nations” Conceptions of Modernity after Independence

Chapter 3 The San Patricio Battalion

Chapter 4 Eagles of American Democracy: The Flowering of American Republican Modernity

Chapter 5 Francisco Bilbao and the Atlantic Imagination

Chapter 6 David Peña and Black Liberalism

Chapter 7 The Collapse of American Republican Modernity

Conclusion: A “Gift That the New World Has Sent Us”

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478092209

1478092203

OCLC:

1136355446

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access