Institution Building and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Subtitle: The University of San Carlos, Guatemala (American University Studies Series Xxii, Latin American Literature)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780820467757
Subjects: Latin America - Central America; General; History; History - General History; 19th century; Education, Higher; Higher education and state; Latin America; Universidad de San Carlos de G; Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala; History: World
Description: "This book, based on years of research, including extensive work in Guatermalan archives, illuminates the social, political, and cultural life of Guatemala and Central America during the nineteenth century through the lens of the University of San Carlos. Guatemala, the period's only institution of higher learning in Guatemala and the most prestigious one on the Central American isthmus. The major issues addressed include the relationships between institution-building and state formation; between the university and the development of a national and regional identity; and between modernism and Catholicism (still a central tension in the region's culture), including the discursive process of constructing an ideology that fused elements from the Enlightenment and the tradition of scholasticism. This book contributes to a growing body of revisionism by challenging a flawed liberal historiographical narrative that demarcates changes during the period along the lines of political transitions and insisting that this era be viewed within a broader context of fluidity and continuity in the region's history."--BOOK JACKET.