Social Difference in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America

An Intellectual History

Francisco Ortega (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-5447-2 (ISBN)

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This book explores the transformation of political culture in northwest Spanish America during the age of the Atlantic revolutions and the subsequent period of nation building. It examines these transformations by focusing on the meaning and intellectual importance of social difference, both as a resource and as an obstacle, for diverse political and intellectual actors.

Francisco A. Ortega follows key political debates in several spheres of cultural and political negotiation, including constitutional theory, social anthropology and ethnography, political economy and education. These spheres constituted intense venues of debate and creativity, as the new republics made strenuous efforts to build the material and intellectual basis of new states. The book discusses the powerful independent projects and ambitious institutional efforts within these spheres and shows how they draw from a shared Euro-American history in order to respond to the post-colonial challenge of constructing representative republics with heterogeneous populations.

Francisco A. Ortega is Associate Professor in the history department at the National University of Colombia, Colombia.

Introduction. From a Colony of Enemies to a Republic of Fellow citizens: The Prudent Government of Difference
Part I: The Polemical context
1. Tente en el Ayre: Racial Attitudes and Values in the Great Colombia Region 1770-1870
Part II: Constituting and Social Difference
2. Salta Atrás: Constituting a Diverse Republic
3. Gente Decente: Equality, Diversity and Citizenship
4. No te Entiendo: A Fourth Moral Power
Part III: The Political Languages of Man and Labor
5. Lobo: Constituting Man: The Sciences of Man and the Creation of Race
6. Morisco: Economic Reforms and Moral Cohesion
Part IV: Making Citizens Out of Plebs
7. Genizara: Educating Virtuous Citizens, Moralizing Ignorant Masses
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Europe’s Legacy in the Modern World
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4742-5447-0 / 1474254470
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-5447-2 / 9781474254472
Zustand	Neuware