Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950

In: Latin America otherwise

In: languages, empires, nations

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the series -- Acknowledgments -- The Long and the Short of It: A Pragmatic Perspective on Political Cultures, Especially for the Modern History of the Andes -- Is Political Culture Good to Think? -- How Interests and Values Seldom Come Alone, or: The Utility of a Pragmatic Perspective on Political Culture -- Part One. State- and Nation-Building Projects and Their Limitations -- Civilize or Control? The Lingering Impact of the Bourbon Urban Reforms -- A Break with the Past? Santa Cruz and the Constitution -- The Tax Man Cometh: Local Authorities and the Battle Over Taxes in Peru, 1885-1906 -- ''Under the dominion of the indian'': Rural Mobilization, the Law, and Revolutionary Nationalism in Bolivia in the 1940s -- Part Two. Ethnicity, Gender, and the Construction of Power: Exclusionary Strategies and the Struggle for Citizenship -- ''Free Men of All Colors'' in New Granada: Identity and Obedience before Independence -- Silencing African Descent: Caribbean Colombia and Early Nation Building, 1810-1828 -- The Making of Ecuador's Pueblo Católico, 1861-1875 -- Redeemed Indians, Barbarized Cholos: Crafting Neocolonial Modernity in Liberal Bolivia, 1900-1910 -- Part Three. The Local, the Peripheral, and the Network: Redefining the Boundaries of Popular Representation in the Public Arena -- Andean Political Imagination in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Public Opinions and Public Spheres in Late-Nineteenth-Century Peru: A Multicolored Web in a Tattered Cloth -- The Local Limitations to a National Political Movement: Gaitán and Gaitanismo in Antioquia -- Concluding Remarks: Andean Inflections of Latin American Political Cultures -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index