Caudillos Versus the Nation State (LAST100 wk 5)
Channel: UBC Latin American Studies
Date: 2015-10-05

Nineteenth-century Latin America was often a violent place, not unlike what the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes describes as a “warre [. . .] of every man against every man.” To be fair, matters weren’t much better in Europe. But in general, the nineteenth century in Europe and North America saw the gradual acceptance of liberal doctrines and Enlightenment principles–at “home,” if not in the colonies abroad. By contrast, in Latin America liberalism has never really flourished.

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Video by Jon Beasley-Murray for the University of British Columbia course, LAST100, "Introduction to Latin American Studies."  See https://last100.arts.ubc.ca/syllabus/week-5/.