Title
The vanguard of the Atlantic world : creating modernity, nation, and democracy in nineteenth-century Latin America / James E. Sanders.
ISBN
9780822357803 (paperback)
0822357801 (paperback)
9780822357643 (hardcover)
082235764X (hardcover)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xi, 339 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
F1413 .S26 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
980.03
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."--Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-329) and index.
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."
