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In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E. Sanders contends that Latin America in this period was a site of genuine political innovation and popular debate reflecting Latin Americans' visions of modernity. Drawing on archival sources in Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay, Sanders traces the circulation of political discourse and democratic practice among urban elites, rural peasants, European immigrants, slaves, and freed blacks to show how and why ideas of liberty, democracy, and universalism gained widespread purchase across the region, mobilizing political consciousness and solidarity among diverse constituencies. In doing so, Sanders reframes the locus and meaning of political and cultural modernity.

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Latin America

History of the Americas

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	03 octobre 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822376132
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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the vanguard of the a tlantic world

J A M E S E . S A N D E R S

Thevanguard oftheatlantic world CREAT I NG MODERNI T Y, NAT I ON, AND DEMOCRACY I N NI NET EENT HCENT URY L AT I N AMERI CA

Duke University Press Durham and London 2014

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Sanders, James E., 1971 The vanguard of the Atlantic world : creating modernity, nation, and democracy in nineteenthcentury Latin America / James E. Sanders. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn978–0–8223–5764–3 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn978–0–8223–5780–3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Latin America—Politics and government—19th century. 2. Latin America—History—19th century. 3. Democracy—History—19th century. I. Title. f1413.s26 2014 980.03—dc23 2014012190

Cover Image: Watercolor by Henry Price, 1852. Courtesy of the digital library of the Colombia National Library and the Colombia National Library.

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Contents

acknowledgments prologue

introductionchapter 1

chapter 2

chapter 3chapter 4

chapter 5chapter 6chapter 7

conclusion

notesbibliographyindex

ix 1

American Republican Modernity 5 Garibaldi, the Garibaldinos, and the Guerra Grande 24

“APuebloUnﬁttoLiveamongCivilizedNations”:Conceptions of Modernity after Independence 39 The San Patricio Battalion 64 Eagles of American Democracy: The Flowering of American Republican Modernity 81 Francisco Bilbao and the Atlantic Imagination 136 David Peña and Black Liberalism 161 The Collapse of American Republican Modernity 176 A “Gift That the New World Has Sent Us” 225

239 297 331

Acknowledgments

This project began in Bogotá’s Biblioteca Nacional, as I read nineteenthcentury newspapers for my earlier book on Colombian popular political beliefs and actions. I spent most of my time uncovering hints of how in digenous peoples, exslaves, and small farmers appeared in the historical record. Now and again, however, I would turn away from my intensely local pursuits and glance at the news of the world these nineteenthcentury papers reported. At ﬁrst, this was just a diversion, playing hooky from my real work—it was fun to see what Colombians thought about the U.S. Civil War, or Garibaldi’s adventures in Italy, or Maximilian’s empire in Mexico. After a while, however, I became troubled. These Colombian writers were not seeing the world in the way that I had been taught they should. They were not pining for a distant European civilization, hoping to imitate the latest fashion from Paris, and depressed about the sad state of their own barbarous republics. Instead, these writers expressed a great conﬁdence in their own societies, the Americas as a whole, and their place in creating a new future for the world. My effort to understand this contradiction, to un derstand how nineteenthcentury Latin Americans saw the world and their place in it, became this book. Since this project began quite some time ago, I have accumulated more debts than seem warranted. As my partner is a librarian, I must begin by