Contentious Republicans - Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Informationen zum Autor James E. Sanders is Assistant Professor of History at Utah State University. Klappentext Shows how Afro-Colombians! Indians! and "white" peasants helped construct a democratic political culture in 19th-century Colombia! and ways in which the loss of some aspects of this mass-based democracy fed into the pervasive violence of the Zusammenfassung Explores the mid-nineteenth-century rise of mass electoral democracy in the southwestern region of Colombia! a country many assume has never had a meaningful democracy of any sort. This book examines the political activism of three distinct social and racial groups: Afro-Colombians! Indians! and white peasant migrants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments viii 1 Introduction: A Social History of Politics 1 2 “We the Undersigned, Citizens of the State”: Three Forms of Popular Republicanism 18 3 A New Politics: The Emergence of Republican Bargaining, 1848-1853 58 4 Fragmented Hegemony: The Limits of Elite Power, 1853-1863 100 5 The Triumph of Democracy, 1863-1876 >6 Failure of Discipline: The Suppression of Popular Politics, 1875-1886 153 7 Conclusion: Popular Republicans’ Legacies 184 Notes 199 Abbreviations 237 Bibliography 239 Index 253

Product details

• Authors: James E. Sanders, Sanders, James E Sanders, James E. Sanders
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2004
• EAN: 9780822332343
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3234-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Südamerika, History - General History, HISTORY / Latin America / South America