Chile
Subtitle: the making of a republic, 1830-1865
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9780511070983
Description: This book examines the formative period of Chile's history, and combines an analysis of the ideas and assumptions of the Chilean political class with a narrative of the political process from the consolidation of the Conservative regime in the 1830s, to the beginnings of liberalization in the early 1860s.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Introduction; 1 The Early Republic: A Sketch; 2 The Conservative System; 3 Authoritarians and Moderates, 1835-1846; 4 The Liberal Challenge, 1846-1851; 5 Progress and Its Instruments; 6 Political Argument; 7 Model Republic; 8 Looking Outward; 9 The Conservative Defection, 1851-1858; 10 The Triumph of Liberty, 1859-1864; Sources; Contemporary Printed Materials; Archival Materials; Books and Articles (Since 1880); Index.