Imported modernity in post-colonial state formation
Subtitle: the appropriation of political, educational, and cultural models in nineteenth-century Latin America
By: edited by Eugenia Roldán Vera & Marcelo Caruso.
Contributors: Roldán Vera, Eugenia.; Caruso, Marcelo, 1958-
Series: Komparatistische Bibliothek -- Bd. 14 = -- Comparative studies series -- vol. 14 = -- Bibliotheque d'etudes comparatives -- vol. 14,; Comparative studies series -- Bd. 14.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780820465098; 9783631515846
Subjects: Liberalism -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century.; Political culture -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century.; Political science -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century.; Education -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century.; Education and state -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century.; Latin America -- Civilization -- European influences.; Latin America -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : avoiding the national, assessing the modern / Eugenia Roldán Vera and Marcelo Caruso; value: Between the old and the new regime : the triumph of the intermediate bodies in the Quito Audience, 1765-1830 / Federica Morelli; value: Iusnaturalist tradition and utilitarianism imported : the intellectual and political trajectories of the elites in the Rio de la Plata, 1810-1825 / Beatriz Dávilo; value: Old regional antagonisms and imported political models : the liberal invention of a Salvadoran state identity, 1821-1829 / Sajid Alfredo Herrera; value: Mid nineteenth-century ideological radicalization in Peru : the French post-revolutionary influence / Natalia Sobrevilla Perea; value: "Democracy in South America" : the "new generation" and the reception of Tocqueville's De la démocratie en Amérique : the path of River Plate liberalism, 1840-1852 / Jorge Myers; value: Imported Englishness : Henry Christophe's educational programme in Haiti, 1806-1820 / Karen Racine; value: Export as import : James Thomson's civilising mission in South America, 1818-1825 / Eugenia Roldán Vera; value: New schooling and the invention of a political culture : community, rituals and meritocracy in Colombian monitorial schools, 1821-1842 / Marcelo Caruso; value: In the name of civilization : compulsory education and cultural politics in Brazil in the 19th century / Luciano Mendes de Faria Filho and José G. Gondra; value: Consumption and excess in colonial and early-independent Spanish America / Rebecca Earle; value: Ranke in Mexico : the process of professionalization of history, a century later? / Guillermo Zermeño.