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Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia - Couverture rigide

Del Castillo, Lina

 
9780803290747: Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia
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ISBN 10 : 0803290748 ISBN 13 : 9780803290747
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lina del Castillo is an assistant professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803290748
ISBN 13 
9780803290747
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
402
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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