Crafting a Republic for the World
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-9074-7 (ISBN)
In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish “colonial legacy.” Those supposed legacies included a lack of effective geographic knowledge, blockages to a circulatory political economy, existing patterns of land tenure, entrenched inequalities, and ignorance among popular sectors.
At times collaboratively, and at times combatively, Colombian leaders tackled these “colonial” legacies to forge a republic in a hostile world of monarchies and empires. The highly partisan, yet uniformly republican public sphere crafted a vision of a virtuous nation that, unlike the United States, had already abolished slavery and included Indians as citizens. By the mid-nineteenth century, as suffrage expanded to all males over twenty-one, Colombian elites nevertheless tinkered with territorial divisions and devised new constitutions to manage the alleged “colonial legacy” affecting the minds of popular voters. The book explores how the struggle to be at the vanguard of radical republican equality fomented innovative contributions to social sciences, including geography, cartography, political ethnography, constitutional science, history, and the calculation of equity through land reform. Paradoxically, these efforts created a kind of legal pluralism reminiscent of the Spanish monarchy during the “colonial” period.
Lina del Castillo is an assistant professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Postcolonial Inventions of Spanish American Colonial Legacies
Chapter 1. Gran Colombian Print Culture and the Erasure of the Spanish Enlightenment
Chapter 2. A Political Economy of Circulation
Chapter 3. Calculating Equality and the Postcolonial Reproduction of the Colonial State
Chapter 4. Political Ethnography and the Colonial in the Postcolonial Mind
Chapter 5. Constitutions and Political Geographies Harness Universal Manhood Suffrage
Chapter 6. Civic Religion vs. the Catholic Church and the Ending of a Republican Project
Conclusion: A Continental Postcolonial Colombia Challenges the Latin Race Idea
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.07.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 photograph, 14 illustrations, 3 maps, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8032-9074-8 / 0803290748 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-9074-7 / 9780803290747 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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