num_pages: 318
description: Brooke Larson's interpretive analysis of the history of Andean peasants reveals the challenges of nation making in the republics of Colombia Ecuador Peru and Bolivia during the volatile nineteenth century. Nowhere in Latin America were postcolonial transitions more turbulent than in the Andes where communal indigenous roots grew deep and where the Indian problem seemed so discouraging to liberalizing states. The analysis raises broader issues about the interplay of liberalism racism and ethnicity in the formation of exclusionary republics without citizens over the nineteenth century.
language: English
title: Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910
publisher: Cambridge University Press