The Vanguard of the Atlantic World
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The Vanguard of the Atlantic World

Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

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The Vanguard of the Atlantic World

Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Prologue
  4. Introduction: American Republican Modernity
  5. Chapter 1. Garibaldi, the Garibaldinos, and the Guerra Grande
  6. Chapter 2. “A Pueblo Unfit to Live among Civilized Nations”: Conceptions of Modernity after Independence
  7. Chapter 3. The San Patricio Battalion
  8. Chapter 4. Eagles of American Democracy: The Flowering of American Republican Modernity
  9. Chapter 5. Francisco Bilbao and the Atlantic Imagination
  10. Chapter 6. David Peña and Black Liberalism
  11. Chapter 7. The Collapse of American Republican Modernity
  12. Conclusion. A “Gift That the New World Has Sent Us”
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index