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Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 examines the ways in which the ancient concept of "democracy" was re-imagined as relevant to the modern world in Latin America and the Caribbean between the late eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries.
List of contents
- I Introduction
- 1. The Project and the Setting
- Joanna Innes
- 2. The Language of Democracy
- Eduardo Posada-Carbó
- II Themes
- 3. Iberian Legacies
- Anthony McFarlane
- 4. Foundations, Ruptures and Fissures in British and French Caribbean Political Culture
- Dexnell Peters
- 5. Emerging States
- Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
- 6. From Caste to Race: Re-imagining Diversity in Spanish America
- Nancy P. Appelbaum
- 7. Democracy and Liberal Constitutionalism
- José Antonio Aguilar Rivera and Eduardo Zimmermann
- 8. Political Cultures and Practices in Spanish South American Cities
- Paula Alonso and Marcela Ternavasio
- 9. Education, Citizenship and Contesting the Future
- Nicola Miller
- 10. Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: The View from Elsewhere
- Carsten-Andreas Schulz and Mark Petersen
- III Language in Local Contexts
- 11. Articulating Democracy in Hispaniola: Haiti and the Dominican Republic
- Emmanuel Lachaud
- 12. An Empire between Republics: "Democracy" in the Constitutional Monarchy of Brazil
- Andréa Slemian
- 13. Democracy in Mexico
- Guy Thomson
- 14. Democracy, "Pardos" and Slaves in Venezuela
- Luis Daniel Perrone
- 15. The Allure of Democracy in New Granada
- Eduardo Posada-Carbó
- 16. Moderating the Democratic Impetus: Trajectories of Democracy in Chile Juan Luis Ossa
- Further Reading
- Index
About the author
Eduardo Posada-Carbó is Professor of the History and Politics of Latin America at the University of Oxford and William Golding Senior Research Fellow at Brasenose College.
Joanna Innes is Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College and Professor Emerita of the University of Oxford.
Mark Philp is Professor of History and Politics at the University of Warwick, and Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College.
Summary
Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 examines the ways in which the ancient concept of “democracy” was re-imagined as relevant to the modern world in Latin America and the Caribbean between the late eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries.
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Re-imagining Democracy is a key volume for renewed looks at these democratic impulses...Highly recommended. Undergraduates through faculty.
